First blog of the year

I've been very slack with my musings this year due to something called bloggers block. I'm sure I'll recover soon.

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BNP on Question Time

I've no doubt that Nick Griffin should have appeared on Question Time. He has a mandate from nearly 1m people who voted for the BNP in June. The problem with the Question Time format is that it deals in sound bites not real analysis. Although Griffin got the arse kicking he deserved we learned nothing about the BNP that we didn't already know. Griffin complained afterwards that he had been set up by the BBC with a biased studio audience. This is patently not true. The BBC had invited applicants who had applied many weeks before, who had no idea who the guests would be. Griffin claimed that this was just another example of a  left wing conspiracy against the BNP.

The reality is that this was a typical group of fair minded people who were appalled by what they heard.

Cricket in September

I was listening to Test Match Special during the washed out Twenty20 match  at Old Trafford. last Tuesday. Aussies Jim Maxwell and Matt Hayden were highly amused at the ECB logic of scheduling  any kind of cricket in September in England.  Quite right but the trouble is its not just September now its June July and August too. 

I'm off to watch England play the Aussies in the last one day match of the series at the Riverside Durham and will be packing severe weather gear and snow shoes.

Bye BB

Big Brother getting evicted at last. I always hated it from day one simply because Ch4 booted The West Wing into touch to make way for it.



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