Archive for October, 2009

Is Cowell losing the X Factor plot?

Mr Blatherskite only asks because there are reports that Simon Cowell ‘attacked’ house poppets Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue (shouldn’t that be Ddannii or even Ddaannii?) for spending more time on their frocks and make-up than thinking about their incisive judgements.

Well …

Dyke and Eyre in running for C4 job

According to Media Guardian anyway but only, sadly, for the post of chairman rather than CEO.

It might be thought that both Greg Dyke and Richard Eyre are a bit long in the tooth to be CEO but there are obvious …

Asda drops Katie’s knickers

OK it’s cheap but even Mr Blatherskite succumbs now and then.

Wal-Mart-owned Asda is dropping its KatieĀ  Price lingerie range as the ex glamour model’s antics become ever more bizarre. Apparently the final straw is her current relationship with Alex …

Questions from Griffin, ONS figures defy reality, money worries for Liverpool

**The BNP’s Nick Griffin may be a scumbag but he attracts a few votes and, without being very good at all, gets the Establishment’s knickers in a twist.

The BBC invited him on Question Time, clearly without working out a clear …

UK recession is not over - but which party will benefit most?

Well you’d expect it to be Her Majesty’s Opposition who can now try to blame Labour for the longest recession in recorded history. Figures out today showed that the economy had shrunk by 0.4 per cent between July and September.

But actually …

Will Windows 7 do the job for Microsoft?

Well commentators are saying that it’s better than the useless Vista software system, while also pointing out that it’s actually only a spruced-up version of the aforementioned disaster.

In the meantime Apple announced this week that it had sold 17 per …

Storm over Gordon Brown’s climate change ad

Fighting climate change is something we’re all supposed to sign up to, despite there being very little evidence that we can do much about it. UK PM Gordon Brown announced the other day that we had just ‘50 days to …

Postal workers have been sold short

A few years ago in a bid to ‘liberalise’ the UK postal market the Labour government broke up the Post Office’s monopoly and allowed overseas firms like TNT to pitch for the most profitable parts of its business, ie business …

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