Category: News

I never purposefully set out to listen to Alistair Cooke read his Letter From America, although as a sometime Radio 4 listener I heard plenty of them, if less so in recent years. The BBC are “sort of” replacing him with Harold Evans, another British journalist of long standing who now resides on the other…

I think this cartoon from today’s Guardian really says it all. See also today’s leader.

Reading this piece talking about Jon Stewart’s new set for The Daily Show is worthwhile. I did raise a smile at “Senior UK and Falkland Islands Correspondent” Rob Corddry’s disgust at the lack of national pride./ C’mon! Where are the bumper stickers, the Union Jack lapel pins, the wanted dead or alive posters? This American…

The two minute silence was scrupulously observed here at work, with most people heeding Ken Livingstone’s wish for Londoner’s to go out in the street. I stayed in the office, but looking out the window showed I was in the minority. I won’t repeat what I said the other day about minutes of silence. And…

It’s always entertaining to watch Sky News’s feed of the CBS Evening News at 00:30 each evening (it’s delayed by an hour). Last week, on the day that London won the Olympics, and world leaders met at Gleneagles for G8, the headlines were all about Hurricane Dennis. Fair enough, but I’m sure that G8 really…

Back on the tube this morning for the first time since the bomb blasts. I read a book and tried to drown out fellow passengers discussing how they were “nearly” caught in the blast at Liverpool Street or wherever. I could probably make a case for myself about how I “might” have been on the…

It was great to see that thousands went into London today to celebrate the 60th anniversary of war ending. There were some obvious parrallels between events of the early forties and today, but high security or not people came out in their droves. The flyby of WWII planes was spectacular, and I was lucky to…

Obviously the wall to wall coverage of the London bombings is continuing today, but here are a couple of things that have raised my ire over the morning. Lots of reporters were out and about at the major stations this morning seeing how Londoners were coping with transport in this morning, and would they get…

It’s difficult to know what to think of people who can bomb so callously targeting random men, women and children. The authorities have been really good, and although transport was closed down in central London, people have been walking out of “Zone 1” to many of the mainline stations that are open. Personally, I had…

It’s all pretty chaotic, and we sit here pretty helpless wondering what the best thing to do is. Staying put is the best option for the time being. It’s seems like there are around six blasts around London in what seems at the moment to be a co-ordinated terrorist attack, not dissimilar to that in…

Not such a happy birthday for her as she “celebrates” her 60th birthday under house arrest. Incidentally, I still get annoyed that The Economist insists on calling Burma “Myanmar”.

Today there was plenty of coverage of a worthy UN initiative resulting in a publication called One Planet – Many People. I saw some coverage about it on TV this morning, and today’s papers had photos. The publication compares satellite photos taken years apart to show the impact of man. I was eager to learn…

I know it’s really bad to admit it, but I just know I’m going to struggle with not thinking that the new French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, is a man.