I’ve mentioned on a few occasions Denis Healey’s first rule of holes – when in one, stop digging – a lesson that seems lost on the BBC in its handling of the Great Blue Peter Cat Naming Scandal.
The scenario is pretty straight forward.
A while back, Blue Peter acquired itself a new kitten and gave its [...]

Right, so let’s talk about Ming.

No, not that Ming. This Ming.

That’s unquestionably Ming the Merciless, Emperor of Mongo, as played by Max Von Sydow in the 1980 film version of Flash Gordon.
For anyone my age – and maybe a little younger – who can remember the days before 24/7 cable/satellite TV, one of absolute givens [...]

Without wishing to spoil anyone’s anticipation of the upcoming publication of Iain Dale’s latest guide to political blogging, I’m one of forty bloggers who has a self-penned entry in the book’s ‘Who’s Who’ section, in which I make the point that one of things that motivates my writing is a deep-seated sense of irritation with [...]

First things first. It is most remiss of me not to have acknowledged James Higham’s laudatory remarks in the latest of his regular Saturday blogfocus commentaries:
One year this blog has been going and how many blogs have we seen falling by the wayside in that time, coming back with a flourish and then fading away [...]

Following hot on the heels of the Jonathan Isaby’s gaff in publishing what he claimed were unofficial vote tallies taken by a member of the Tory Campaign team in Ealing Southall during the verification of postal ballots, a second national newspaper appears to have repeated Isaby’s gaff.
Visit in the Independent on-line this morning, and you’ll [...]

The Groan have got the skinny on the Beeb’s plans for its autumn schedules…
BBC1 has secured a series of interviews with former prime minister Tony Blair in which he will look back over the major events of his 10-years in office.
In what the BBC has billed as a “number of open and candid” interviews, Mr [...]

I should imagine that Iain Dale will be pleased with Andrew Marr’s account of the Thatcher years in his ‘History’ of Modern Britain – and yes I have got the quotation marks in the right place – not least for his slavish adherence to popular myth surrounding the sinking of the General Belgrano, even in [...]

Via Bob Piper I find Fat Man in a Bathtub struggling to find a suitable candidate for a BBC Poll on the best British film of all time (Bob has some good suggestions, btw):
The BBC is conducting a poll on the best British film of all time, and  I am struggling to come up with [...]

It seems that I’ve been ‘tagged’ by Tom to give the once over to a Fox News Lite video ‘report’ (posted on Conservative Home) about Robin Aitken’s claim that the BBC is guilty of an “unconscious, institutionalised Leftism”
Mmm… Do I want to spend 15 minutes or so of my life listening to the same [...]

Can someone please remind me which political party Frank Field MP is member of? (rhetorical)
Or perhaps remind Frank, as he seems to be more than a bit confused of late, is his latest missive on Comment is Free is anything to go by.
A successful terrorist attack on London could make part of the capital uninhabitable [...]