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Carol Thatcher - Sit Tight And Let It All Blow Over

The BBC has removed Carol Thatcher from her role as a reporter on the ONE show on BBC1 after she referred to a black tennis player as a “golliwog”.
Her spokesperson has said that it was meant as a joke and that she never meant any offence. Well that’s OK, then.
As long as it was meant [...]

BBC Report Shows Ridiculous Calls To Emergency Services

Angry about mushrooms being added to your pizza? Peeved that shop workers won’t let your Priest ass use the staff toilets in a shop?
If either of these applies to you - and you are an idiot - then you can simply dial the UK emergency services to get some justice.
A BBC report shows some of [...]

Jonathan Ross Should Be Fired

I listened to the podcast of the Russell Brand radio programme last week and there was a thread running through the show that I really didn’t believe at the time.
Brand and his co-host, Jonathan Ross, phoned the voicemail of the actor Andrew Sachs. In a previous show, Brand had said that he had been in [...]

UK DJs Told To Stop Glamorising Boozing

A story on the BBC website says that a Bristol University study claims that across 1,200 hours of radio output, 73% of all comments made by presenters about drinking or getting drunk encouraged drinking.
I have long had a problem with this.
The same radio stations that carry stories about binge drinking will move immediately to a [...]