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Furore as PM admits he doesn't do his own stunts

jp1885 wrote 1 week ago: Gordon Brown faces fresh criticism today after admitting on BBC Radio 4’s Today program that h … more →

Tags: Articles, gordon brown, stunts

Mastermind for Children In Need

Jennifer Turner wrote 1 week ago: I hardly like to mention something so trivial, but last night’s Mastermind celebrity special w … more →

Tags: Gossip, Mastermind, Children in Need, Dave Spikey, lucy porter, stephen k amos

Listen to a Londoner: Lucy McDonald1 comment

littlelondonobservationist wrote 1 week ago: Listen to a Londoner. This is a weekly post where people who live (or have lived for a while) in Lon … more →

Tags: Listen to a Londoner, London, brick lane, hampstead heath, Interview, Boris, lucy mcdonald, commercial road, islington

Queen’s Speech : The Election Campaign Begins

Stephan Shakespeare wrote 1 week ago: This post first appeared on John Humphrys’ YouGov blog. The Queen’s Speech is always a rather … more →

Tags: Politics, UK, YouGov, election, David Cameron, gordon brown, Queens' Speech, Election 2010

Dimbleby knocked out by bull

Dan wrote 2 weeks ago: Journalist and BBC Question Time host David Dimbleby, 71, has been knocked unconcious by a bullock. … more →

Tags: accident, BBC, Politics, british broadcasting corporation, Television, Host, présenter, Journalist, Show

Cameron's Big Society - Practical Vision or Pipedream?

Stephan Shakespeare wrote 2 weeks ago: This post is copied from John Humphrys’ YouGov Blog One of the phrases that haunted Margaret T … more →

Tags: UK, YouGov, David Cameron, big society

Funding the Banks: The Government Stumps Up More

Stephan Shakespeare wrote 3 weeks ago: The post below is copied from John Humphrys’ YouGov blog. ‘Ever since the banking crisis … more →

Tags: UK, Banking, Bailout

A question of terminology

elsiem wrote 1 month ago: The Today programme’s top news item this morning was the non-story that antenatal diagnoses of … more →

Tags: language, TV and radio, BBC, Down's Syndrome, ARC

Jeremy Paxman challenged over difficulty of quiz show questions - Cheltenham Literature Festival

encourager wrote 1 month ago: October 12, 2009 Jack Malvern John Humphrys has challenged Jeremy Paxman to a televised “general kno … more →

Tags: Cheltenham Literature Festival, Jeremy Paxman, university challenge, Mastermind

Cheltenham Literature Festival starts today!

encourager wrote 1 month ago: Friday 9th October 2009 Today is the start of the Cheltenham Literature Festival and more than 100,0 … more →

Tags: Cheltenham Literature Festival, Jeremy Paxman, Cherie Blair, Simon Armitage, Richard Hammond, sebastian faulks, Paddy Ashdown, ben fogle, James Cracknell

#2 comments

Molly wrote 1 month ago: I don’t usually get very excited about products I can’t wear, but that was before I foun … more →

Tags: Fashion, Literature, Music, A Good Read, David Gandy, Eddie Mair, hussein chalayan spring/summer 2010, Michael Mansfield, Radio 4

What's your "if only..." technology?

jellylondon wrote 2 months ago: Our friends at Fishburn Hedges recently approached us with a rather unusual project… To illust … more →

Tags: Illustration, Web, Jelly, damien weighill, jelly london, jelly illustration, If only.., fishburn hedges, Guardian online

William Lane Craig vs. Lewis Wolpert: Is God a Delusion?

fleance7 wrote 2 months ago: Brian at Apologetics 315 has the audio up of this recent debate. William Lane Craig debates Lewis Wo … more →

Tags: Apologetics, Audio, William Lane Craig, Debate, Apologetics 315, Lewis Wolpert, Is God a Delusion?

Touching a nerve?9 comments

nickbaines wrote 2 months ago: In my last post I touched on the question of ‘touch‘ and how the absence (or prevention) … more →

Tags: Childhood, Fear, Risk, victim culture

Nothing to be frightened of1 comment

unfinishedchristian wrote 4 months ago: I haven’t blogged for some weeks, but the recent news stories around assisted dying prompted m … more →

Tags: bereavement, death, ethics, Suicide, assisted dying, Sarah Jarvis, The welcome visitor

An Urgent Public Defense2 comments

splitwindow wrote 5 months ago: I have recently been accused of being unfair to young people, a claim quite frankly I find deplorabl … more →

Tags: Name dropping, Young People, Love, So Called Friends?, Teaching, libel

Lost for Words – a tough week for John Humphrys3 comments

Lex Loizides wrote 5 months ago: John Humphrys, respected journalist and host of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme found himself verbally … more →

Tags: Book Review, 20th Century, 21st Century, BBC, Public Speaking, English, Journalism, proverbs, Lost for Words

I wonder if it will catch on?5 comments

charleen wrote 5 months ago: I was listening to the BBC podcasts, like I do every day, and I just struck upon something that I lo … more →

Tags: BBC, Jean Seton, GEORGE ORWELL, Podcasts

The BBC and New Labour's DNA Database (Updated)

ecologics wrote 6 months ago: …What we’ve found is that since keeping DNA of people who have been arrested … at some t … more →

Tags: Civil Liberties, New Labour's Corruption, Politics, The Culture of Surveillance, UK's Legal Justice System, UK's Political Culture, surveillance society, DNA, New Labour


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