Topic: Sport
The limits of the laws
There is something rotten in the rugby world, and it's not Dean Richards. The sanctimonious twaddle being spoken on the subject of Harlequins' "bloodgate" by commentators and former professionals is nauseating. Rugby, they would have you…
The Government Lied to us all. Allegedly.
Do you ever get the feeling that the government is pulling the wool over your eyes? It seems they can never be straight about how much money they are going to take off you to spend on their latest social experiment or landmark building…
£3bn gets you nothing these days
The government has spent an extra £3 billion of investment through the lottery and millions more from the taxpayer in an attempt to tackle obesity and encourage kids to take up sport since 1994. The result? Absolutely nothing. There has…
Epileptic logo
More trouble for the extraordinarily expensive Olympic marketing efforts. The promotional video, jazzed up (or barfed over, depending on your point of view) with animated figures based on our fantastic logo, has been causing epileptic…
Olympic budget
The celebrations of 2012 days left to the London Olympic Games a few days ago were overshadowed by the publication of a critical Commons Committee report. MPs (mainly Labour) criticised the planners for poor management of the games…
Olympics
The Olympic bill has risen by 40% since the Games were won last year and its is likely that it will go up even further. The Government must sort out this chaos at once and it needs to get a grip on all the costs and where the funding will…
An Olympian Mess?
Inevitably fears are mounting that the costs of staging the 2012 Olympic Games are spiralling out of control. To its credit, the Olympic Devlivery Authority has brought in private sector experts to help them manage the project. However, the…
BBC censorship
While I'm posting on the subject of the BBC, let me show you a great example of their intolerance of dissent. In August 2005, I posted on the FiveLive message boards a message complaining that they were covering Championship football when…
Dominance of the "majority"
Yet again, it only took a few minutes of driving yesterday to be infuriated by the radio. 5Live was doing football. TalkSport was doing football. The regional channels were doing football. Radio 4 was doing…. drama. It is early August. The…
BBC Charter Renewal
Driving back from picking up my car this afternoon, I turned on the radio, more in hope than expectation. I do not listen to the music channels (the channels that play current music lost their attraction when I reached the age of thirty…