Tag: BBC

End Of Year Quote

Labour MP Paul Flynn, a member of the Commons public administration committee… “The blogosphere is not an area that is open to sensible debate; it is dominated by the obsessed and the fanatical…” He was talking about government proposalsย to allow debate in Parliament of online petitions. He’s probably […]

Fame, At Last!

My pictures of the Kennet & Avon Canal in Reading and The Oracle, posted here two days ago and yesterday respectivelyย have made it to the BBC Website! Iย replied to a Tweet from BBC Berkshire earlier this morning while still in bed while wondering if my water would ever […]

Breaking News: Changes To MFL POS

Shocking news from NewsBiscuit.com; Education Secretary Michael Gove today used his speech at the Conservative Party conference to outline radical plans to scrap modern foreign languages as part of the National Curriculum. Under new proposals children will instead be taught to speak slowly and loudly, as if the […]

On Hannibal’s Trail

I caught the first five minutes or so of this programme last night on BBC HD… I was falling asleep at the time, despite the fact that the programme started at only 9.30pm! I blame the red wine that I had consumed in the afternoon with Johnny (see […]