The Railway DJ returns to mark the day the music almost died
Alexander Dubcek had a dream – and one day it came true. Sadly, it lasted only four months but he had given Czechoslovakia a small taste of freedom. The dream ended overnight on 21...
Category: Media & Politics
CPS warns on-line ‘trials’ are out of line even in ‘privacy’ of your Facebook page
How many Facebook users know that their comments on the bear-pit of social media sites Facebook could get them into BIG trouble? And quite right too says the consumerwatchfoundation.com! The reminder that the laws...
Understanding the Prague Spring and what happened
History shows hundreds of people died in the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Perhaps we’ll never really know how many. But we do know that a large number of them were callously run over by...
How radio pirates said stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr Wilson
Harold Wilson considered military action on an abandoned sea-fort where Radio Caroline had been broadcasting and was then taken over by other radio pirates. Other plans to scupper them included dropping Marines on to...
Exposing the law as UK’s Press stands on Cliff’s edge
As a tabloid journalist who worked on exposes involving Jimmy Savile, Cyril Smith and Stuart Hall – and many others who never actually got exposed in the Press or, indeed, in the courts –...
How pervert Savile fixed it for Tabloid Terrors to get back to exposing the truth
In recent years we have seen many dark days indeed down in the UK’s gutter. No matter how pointless the Leveson inquiry into the morals and actions of the British Press, its political fog...
How shameful is this dehumanising of charity?
If there’s one thing Brits hate it’s seeing something misused. Now, revelations in the aid sector have shown just how charity money meant to provide services to poverty-stricken countries could have been shamefully misused....
MP says I thought I was more of a Dick as dastardly Beano tells him to stop impersonating softy Walter
Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has been threatened by the Beano for impersonating one of its posh cartoon characters! Britain’s iconic comic wrote to the Old Etonian accusing him of impersonating Dennis the Menace’s enemy...
Broken Biscuit Corporation holds onto Frog & Muppet … but why?
News has been rushing around the web that the BBC has decided to retain FM frequencies for the foreseeable future. Now, let’s correct that, the BBC is controlled by OFCOM, so it’s not its...
We are dreamers too, says Trump as he reveals more jobs and dosh
President Donald Trump grinned with pride as he announced what he saw as a “new American moment” in his first State of the Union speech to Congress. It was a polished speech which bragged...
