Not so much a thin line between what’s of interest to the public and what’s in the public interest as a yawning chasm

Live in Ireland and while do not vote in elections, pay tax in the UK. I also help fund the Beeb through DVD purchases. Millions more people around the world don’t pay a licence fee or buy BBC DVDs but do r […]

Love Cheap Trick and it remains one of my big regrets that the only times I have had the chance to see them they have been supporting awful AOR 70s “rawk” bands who should be below them on the bill. Fingers […]

BBC say sorry for the edit but refuse to offer compo as they believe there was no defamation

Donovan?

Looks like Orangey may have have better things to occupy his time than suing the Beeb

His top ten acity

@pencilsqueezer Think extraditiion treaties between the countries apply but, aside from Farage, doubt many folk in the UK would like to have Donald Trump over for Xmas and the New Year

As is invariably the case with litigious bullies, any out of court settlement is likely to require large cash settlement accompanied by a groveling apology.

Ditto

@Gary Again with the Corbyn second referendum nonsense. And again, it’s only right you not be allowed to get away with doing so unchallenged – hopefully for the last time If Corbyn had got off his bony b […]

You’re the one who keeps raising the issue and I”m hardly the only AWer who argues he toss

Van was actually very good – his and Clapton’s version of Stormy Monday was the highlight of the evening

The only other thing I remember about the night is that Van M joined Clapton on stage earlier in the evening

@Vincent His dad may not have liked the picture, but ordering CF to take the entire wall down seems somewhat disproportionate Apols just read your review I was at the Birmingham Odeon when EC made his famous […]

@Gary The person who did the most to bring Corbyn down was Corbyn himself

Surely “far right pickle”

IIRC Chris Farlowe used to run a specialist shop/market stall that apparently once boasted the largest collection of Nazi memorabilia in the UK

FWIW, I think that rather than institutional bias per se, what has brought this latest scandal about has been ingrained arrogance and incompetence. Like the NHS, the Beeb seems to be over-stuffed with pen-pushing […]

In the good old days, libel cases in the UK often used to end with more unsavoury plaintiffs “winning” the case but coming away from court with some derisory amount in damages (a farthing or halfpenny) to […]