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Strange Christmas experiences…
Two years ago I was Michael Aspel and Carol Smillie‘s phone-a-friend on the UK Xmas special of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: I’ve never met them… I got the answer right… I kind of knew they’d be calling… Weird, eh? Postscript: They only won a grand, after going for Will Self as author of…
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From the ivory tower
Escaping my journalistic shackles, here’s a piece I did on university regulation for the Times Higher Educational Supplement. Subscription is free for 14 days.
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Off licence
…if they go mad and hire fifteen more Jonathan Rosses they’ll blow the whole wad!Exactly who believes that the leaked licence fee settlement is bad news for the BBC? Why BBC insiders, of course. Oh, and the NUJ and BECTU. In the real world, a 3% revenue rise for the next couple of years is…
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Somebodies and nobodies
Today is getting Rowan Williams, Yoko Ono and a couple of other people in, to ‘edit’ the programme over the festive period. Well, it beats paying overtime. The BBC is good with somebodies, but it doesn’t do as well with nobodies. It’s great at providing a platform for people who already have a platform, like…