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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell. Read by Philip Glenister CSA Word £16.16 6hrs The year of Orwell's dystopia is now long past, but it's frightening to realise just how much of it has come true. The novel, with those dreadful child spies busy reporting their parents to the Thought Police, and Big Brother's telescreens, is given fresh life through this vigorous narration. The Death of Bunny...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Senior commanders say public not convinced British troops can succeed and that purpose of mission remains unclear Growing frustration among Britain's most senior military commanders over the government's handling of the war in Afghanistan burst into the open today as they stepped up plans to restrict the number of areas in which British troops will be deployed. As another British soldier was killed...
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Labour Matters (Free subscription) | yesterday
William Hague’s assertion on The Andrew Marr Show this morning that Lord Ashcroft is now a UK resident would do well to remember similar claims made by the Conservatives’ largest donor. In 1990, when he was made a life peer, he told The Times that he recognised the public concern about foreign funding of British [...]
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Just A Thought! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today is the day we remember all those who have died in conflict fighting to preserve our freedom. Since my earliest childhood memory of men and women standing around the Cenotaph in warm black coats, silently laying wreaths of bright red poppies, it has been about those who fought in WW1 and WW2 . Now, though, it must include those who have, sadly, been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. For me, that...
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OberonHouston (Free subscription) | yesterday
On the day we remember the fallen in conflict from our armed services, the focus is closely directed to the Afghan War and our objectives there. I have long argued that we should not pull out of the country, but abandon the objective of westernising a country that is tribal and incapable of being 'normalised' and maintain a single operations base from which we can launch air operations against Al Quaeda...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The head of the armed forces talks to Andrew Marr this Sunday for a Remembrance Day special.
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Laci the Dog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I have to admit a bit of surprise when this popped up in response to my wanting information on viewing instant movies on netflix: I personally consider myself a citizen of the world and this is an affront to my vie sans frontiers lifestyle. Of course, I would prefer my culture to flow from Europe to the US rather than the other way around. Which it is as I am downloading Spooks (AKA MI-5 to the Septics)...
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John Wells's phonetic blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
In a television discussion between the former Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, and the presenter Andrew Marr, both used the pronunciation ˈspaʊzɪz for spouses (pl). I think (though without and hard evidence) that most people pronounce this word with a voiceless sibilant at the end of the stem, ˈspaʊsɪz . (There is also a jocular plural spice spaɪs , like mouse—mice...
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Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Moore on Marr> > WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 04, 2009Charles Moore here expertly casts his eye over Andrew Marr's BBC series The Making of Modern Britain. It pretty much sums up almost all that is wrong with the BBC today. In a nutshell, Marr ludicrously condemns anything to do with the political right and praises unreseverdly the forces of "progress" - especially the trade unions. It's goodies...
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Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
"What is so irritating about all of this? Not so much its political slant (though it goes almost without saying that the BBC would never have put out a comparable series from a Right-wing point of view). It is more its ineffable complacency, its stupefying lack of imagination." That's Charles Moore on Andrew Marr's "The Making of Modern Britain". Charles Moore's piece is entitled...
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Nineteenth-Century Britain (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
I haven't yet had the change to see Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain , but I've just read Charles Moore's demolition in the Telegraph . Enjoy the polemic - and make up your own minds.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Andrew Marr responds to Charles Moore's strong criticism of his new book and BBC series on Britain.
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Biased BBC (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Charles Moore here expertly casts his eye over Andrew Marr's BBC series The Making of Modern Britain. It pretty much sums up almost all that is wrong with the BBC today. In a nutshell, Marr ludicrously condemns anything to do with the political right and praises unreseverdly the forces of "progress" - especially the trade unions. It's goodies versus baddies and we know who the villains are...
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auntie joanna writes (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
...of Modern Britain" is a new TV series. In a review of the first part, looking at the Victorian and Edwardian era, Telegraph journalist Charles Moore takes presenter Andrew Marr to task for sneering at what was achieved during those years. Of course there have been many improvements in life for many people since the early 20th century but "As well as gaining much, we have also lost. Honour,...
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Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Just spotted this article from 2007 on the web and thought I would draw attention to it. Do go and read the whole piece but here are a few extracts: "I have never thought of the BBC as overtly biased, although it is perfectly true that the arts section of society has a reputation (which it may or may not deserve) for being left-wing. While Auntie might not be permitted to recruit on the basis...
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