After the recent debate on C4 featuring would be chancellors Vince Cable, Alistair Darling and George Osborne ended in political stalemate, part leaders David Cameron, Gordon Brown, and Nick Clegg have agreed to a live TV Dance Off On Ice in a last gasp attempt to sway the vote of the Great British public in their favour Clegg: "Stuck in The Middle With You"The prospective leaders will be asked to show their skills with two dances one classic, ...
Meet Roger Boyes, he is a correspondent for The Times newspaper. His name is slightly unfortunate, but has maybe gone relatively unnoticed until this headline........................... VIENNA BOYS' CHOIR CAUGHT UP IN SEX ABUSE SCANDALS by Roger Boyes, Berlin Correspondent for The Times. I have emailed this article to most of you, but for those of you I haven't, or for independent readers of my blog, click here for the full story.Roger Boyes: ...
I Was looking through a book Harry owns the other day called The Guinness Book of Hit Singles, and I came across Going Underground by The Jam. Alongside the song it gives you all the detail about highest chart position, number of weeks in chart and so on, but what staggered me the most was that it was fully 30 years ago this week when I shuffled in to Woolworth's in Basingstoke with my mate Hutch, to spend my pocket money doing my bit to ensure ...
TV hit the heights of un-funniness this week with two programmes that have defied all logic with their lack of humour. Firstly we had Life Of Riley which is now, inexplicably, on it's second series. Life of Riley is about two middle class families struggling to merge their dysfunctional families, with Maddy (Caroline Quentin) in particular finding life more difficult than imagined, stumbling over unpacked boxes, deciding what paint to buy, ...
I can't say that I was deeply saddened by 'Arry Carpenter's peaceful death yesterday, how can you be sad about someone who has dies at 84 after a fantastic life? However 'Arry's death did bring back poignant memories of my childhood addicted to sport of any kind, be it those muddy floodlit football highlights on Sportsnight that my parents would reluctantly let me stay up and watch on Wednesdays, Wimbledon, The British Open, Grandstand, and of ...