Just watched the BBC 6 o'clock national news. A short bit (very short and easily missed) piece about the Tory win (and Labour disaster) in the Henley byelection was followed by a long piece about Gordon Brown's popularity going over the last year of his time as prime minister. Interesting in a way but decidedly NOT news. The trouble with these people at the BBC is that their noses are so far up the Labour bottom that their brains are fill of shit. What is so difficult about the concept of "news" as relating to events in the last couple of days? Their lapses into documentary means that real news is not being fully reported.
And then we had a piece about the costs of the monarchy - BBC employees are republican wallahs to the hilt. I suspect the present Queen and her likely successor, Prince Charles both have a sense of duty to the nation which would be totally lacking in (say) Tony and Cherie Blair as President and First Lady. And I have no doubt that this wretched couple would be an even greater drain on the workers' purse.
