Best Of

Another night of much of Newsnight approaching the atmosphere of a BBC One magazine show.

The issues of distinctiveness at the BBC at the momenf are quite significant

Someone appears to have looked at the One Show and Radio 5 and thought “that’s lovely” and decided that every bit of news and discussion needs to match. Wankers.

I've spent the last 10 years avoiding The One Show as much as possible.

it is low IQ dreck

I managed to endure 5 minutes of it once whilst visiting someone’s house. There are people who actually watch it - I am at a loss to what part of their souls it fulfils.

A friend of mine was a cameraman on the One Show. He's since moved upwards to Channel 5 documentaries on serial killers and air fryers.

"He cut them up into small pieces and they were ready in 15 minutes".

The Greens have no full answers as yet.

On the other hand, they're serving a usual function. No one else is making some of the kind of perfectly valid case that Polanski was making on QT, that billionaires are helping place all the blame on minorities from structural social and economic issues since Thatcherism.

Neither Starmer, or particularly the Lib Dens, are drawing attention to this reality, and YourParty seems not be functioning yet.

The result is that the public sense of who to hold accountable is gradually being drawn further and further to the right, so he's a useful corrective.

The problem with the Greens is that they are antediluvian, and their policy proposals are crap.

I like "abolish landlords". It's a solution to the problem of too many wealthy rentiers. It's not the solution I would have picked, but it recognises the problem and implements a solution. It's much better than the learned helplessness of Labour,

No it is theft and basically communism and many want to rent privately and not from the state

Polanski won’t drink Earl Grey.

Proper tea is theft.

I'm guessing that the pensioner gravy train will derail just before I reach retirement age.

I am looking to retire when I hit 55 which is less than a decade away.

I’ve always worked on the assumption that I’ll never get a state pension.

I am now 64 and looking to do at least another 3 years. I am lucky to be in good health (if more than a little overweight). As long as I remain healthy I prefer to work. Its fun, I feel I am contributing and it means that I am not drawing on my resources. Plus I find golf unbearably tedious, I am struggling to read as much these days, I have no obvious hobbies (other than maybe PB) and I am not sure what I would do with myself if I retired.