Branding is a still worshipped greatly by media, marketing and advertising people so it’s come as no great surprise that the BBC have re-branded their News 24 outlet as the BBC news channel with another subtle remix of David Lowe’s theme tune and new graphics to suit.
Lowe’s theme has been in place now since 1999 and doesn’t [...]
Scientists (wait for it) from the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre (for it is they) have ‘discovered’ that we do not scratch for pleasure. A study revealed that whilst scratching there are no areas of pleasure in the brain stimulated but that the action did boost activity in the prefrontal cortex which apparently [...]
As the UK awakes to a night of storm battering I know not to turn the television news on and stick to the radio. Why? Because I know that an infinite number of ‘news’ reporters will be reporting live in the strong winds and rain, barely able to stand or be heard just to show [...]
More checks on benefit scroungers
A call for independent medical boards to be established throughout the the country to examine workshy people who claimed they were unfit for work…
“Fraud and abuse have reached serious levels. This leads to genuine claimants being labelled dishonest or workshy when they are nothing of the sort”
“We are determined to root [...]
Recent Woman’s Hour recruit Jane Garvey, wife of down to earth presenter Adrian Chiles bemoans the culture of Radio 4 which she describes as having “a massively middle class bent”.
It’s interesting to read some of the comments to this story in the Media Guardian:
‘what’s wrong in being middle class?.’
(er… )
‘It’s not just middle-class, it’s depressingly [...]
