The enemies of reason (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
This is a bit off topic, if indeed there ever is a topic on this blog, which there often isn't - no wonder I'm not one of those brilliant professional journalists. Anyway, there's something that keeps rising up in me whenever I listen to people talking about football nowadays, an anger, a stench of bile. It's generally when they come out with something like this, and I'm paraphrasing obviously, but...
Ken Devine - a day at a time (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The Times newspaper have listed the 100 best films of the decade and guess how many we've been to see? Only nine... Devil Wears Prada Hotel Rwanda About Schmidt Finding Nemo Gladiator Being John Malkovitch I don't believe it! In the background I have a quiz show showing on TV and just as I typed Malkovitch, Jeremy Vine asked a question about the film and said Malkovitch at exactly the same time. Now...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
More than 800 entries were received for this year's awards, which are designed to promote innovation and spread best practice in public services A scheme offering free access to leisure facilities in Birmingham in return for weekly use was last night acclaimed overall winner of the Guardian Public Services Awards 2009. The scheme, initiated by the city council and the local NHS to tackle health inequalities,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The hit 700-word bedtime story is belng made into a half-hour animated BBC film. It's hard to think there's going to be anything better to watch with your family this Christmas As anyone who's ever had the pleasure of reading it will tell you, there's no such thing as a Gruffalo … And yet, in the 10 years since it was published in 1999, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's 700-word story has...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Welcome to the Northerner, our weekly round-up of the northern press Living in the north appeared to be an arduous occupation this week. First of all our old adversary, the weather, was up to its usual tricks, leaving the pages of the local papers shivering with tales of lashing winds, rains and commuter tailbacks . Some of the most dramatic pictures came with the Northern Echo's report from Darlington...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Mayor comparises suburban ward to once wartorn Lebanese capital because of unruly teenagers Beirut, Baltimore, Gotham City ... some conurbations immediately conjure up images of violence and depravity. And now it seems we should add the small suburb of Penwortham, near Preston, to that list. Locals were shocked this week when their mayor, Jim Hothersall, mentioned the town in the same breath as Beirut...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Jeremy Vine thrives in Berlin as Radio 2 looks back 20 years, while Michael Buerk gets the giggles at last Extraordinary people, last week, but let's begin with an extraordinary time. The BBC has been highlighting 1989 for a few weeks now – as though you hadn't noticed – and on Monday, the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jeremy Vine 's show came live from a cafe in what was...
Chris Paul: Labour of Love (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Strange wasn't it that just as LOL put up some questions for Ms Nadine Dorries MP on her nursing qualification and experience it was announced that new Nursing entrants, from the next intake, will all need to complete the degree route. Presumably this leaves three cohorts in process on the parallel diploma route with the newest intake completing their diplomas in 2012. As ever these diploma nurses...
Cruella-blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Ah, after the horrors of LBC yesterday there was something little short of warm and cuddly about being on today's Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio Two. Sure they had brought in not one but two right wing idiots to argue with me (in the form of Spectator columnist Venetia Thompson and UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom) but we actually had the debate, you know like where everyone gets a chance to give their opinions...
Dog News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Should have been you on there, Ryan! "Dogs As Weapons" BBC iPlayer – Jeremy Vine: 10/11/2009 Starts at 0.36 after David Bowie track and turned into a complete anti-dog diatribe with one chap ringing in to say, "Why should ...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The Guardian : An automated censoring service has left iTunes embarrassed after it censored “doo wop” to “doo w*p”, confusing consumers, including Radio 2 DJ Jeremy Vine. When Vine mentioned in passing to fellow DJ Ken Bruce on Wednesday that he was surprised to find iTunes had censored an album he wanted, it caused an on-air stir. A search of iTunes reveals that the asterisk...
Next Left (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Former Sun political editor George Pascoe-Watson told MediaGuardian yesterday he was "born with a Sun hat on ... I don't think you could really do politics for the Sun without instinctively feeling it in your gut". But, as John Rentoul reports , Pascoe-Watson's gut instinct appears to be that The Sun's attack on the Prime Minister's over his letter of condolence to the family of a soldier...
chrissy2sheds (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Today 9 th November 2009 is the 20 th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin wall. I have been in Exeter today and on the way home listened to Jeremy Vine who ran his programme from a cafe in the old East Berlin. We visited Berlin the following July when the GDR was still in place but the D mark had been adopted as the currency. We were able to chop away at the wall then, not sure if it was legal...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Apple's automated censoring service confuses the 1950s genre for a racial slur, marking song titles with an asterisk An automated censoring service has left iTunes embarrassed after it censored "doo wop" to "doo w*p", confusing consumers, including Radio 2 DJ Jeremy Vine. When Vine mentioned in passing to Ken Bruce on Wednesday that he was surprised to find iTunes had censored...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Jeremy Vine's slickly produced Berlin wall account evoked the reality of a divided city and the euphoria when the wall came down Jeremy Vine's enthusiasm for a good story was in evidence last night as he presented The Day the Wall Fell (Radio 2). Vine was in Berlin, and literally hopping with excitement. "If I just hop like that, left and then right," he observed, "my right foot is...
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