Slow Horses is terrific TV. Plenty of action, good script, good characters well portrayed, black humour, interesting locations etc. Well worth watching. Best to mute the sound during the titles though, beginning and end, because the title music is godawful. At first I thought it was some young herbert channeling Mick Jagger (badly), but then I realised it was actually ol’ Mick himself. Hell’s bells..

I suppose Apple’s marketing bods thought, what with the way they were going to hype it, it would be good to have a Star sing the title song. Someone of standing, like Mick Jagger f’rinstance. Unfortunately, the end result is not exactly Mick’s finest hour. Far from it. His voice is all over the place. It sounds to me like he knocked it off quick, grabbed the cheque and scarpered. He must have known it was below par but he obviously didn’t care. The song is rubbish anyway, mind you. Not sure who else could have turned it into something decent.

https://tv.apple.com/gb/show/slow-horses/umc.cmc.2szz3fdt71tl1ulnbp8utgq5o

Whilst it’s true that the intention to expand the zone could have been publicised more widely and earlier, it’s a fact that the air quality in our major cities is bad and getting worse as traffic increases. It’s a major health hazard. The petrolheads obviously don’t much care about that and, of course, the fact that London’s mayor is not only a brown-skinned Muslim but also from the Labour Party has the right-wing press and their readers foaming at the mouth and calling for his head on a spike. The Tories are hoping for a boost to their poor support (on all other matters they are behind) in London constituencies. The ULEZ Whingers are the same sort of people who whinged when speed limits were first introduced, whinged when MOT tests were made mandatory, whinged when wearing seat belts became mandatory. In an article I’ve just read from Auto Express the writer said disgruntled drivers like him would be boycotting London’s roads, rather than paying the £12.50-a-day charge. Surely that’s exactly what the purpose of expanding the zone is, you muppet! Less traffic, compliant or non-compliant, is something to be looked forward to, I think. Bet your boots the leaders » Continue Reading.