In that parallel universe of Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph readers there was a mass explosion of relief this morning. Curtains will have twitched across the nation as the worst fears of many were assuaged with the Daily Mail’s social affairs correspondent (sic) categorically assuring the threatened masses that they were not surrounded by a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Media’
The nonsense of the NOS ‘sex’ survey
Posted: September 24, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Gay, LGBT, Media, NOS, Research and papers, Sex, Survey
What’s with the reminiscing stuff? First I get asked to reflect on my own ancient history – politics wise – and then there’s the urge to ensure that all my blogs are got in the same place, again. This latter task is proving tedious technically (anyone out there a Notes Designer who can do me [...]
BBC to give Cardiff’s planning woes a very public airing
Posted: March 19, 2010 in Cardiff Council, Planning, Wales and the Welsh, Wales Assembly GovernmentTags: BBC Wales, Cardiff, Housing, Local Development Plan, Media, Rodney Berman
Ok, so planning’s not sexy. But it is important and I frequently bore on about it: lately the focus has been dodgy Cardiff Council planning decisions (again) and its Deposit Local Development Plan. The BBC has taken on a big task to make these subjects fit for human consumption with a 30 minutes long Week [...]
Just last week the – increasingly inane – Breaksfast Show on BBC 1 TV was headlining the story about older people being given free admission to swimming pools. At 6.41 am I emailed the show pointing out 1) the story only related to England and 2) Wales had been doing it for years: “I don’t [...]
Just last week the – increasingly inane – Breaksfast Show on BBC 1 TV was headlining the story about older people being given free admission to swimming pools. At 6.41 am I emailed the show pointing out 1) the story only related to England and 2) Wales had been doing it for years: “I don’t [...]
Reclaim our space SIR – Business Wales reports (September 6) that a property developer has plans to redevelop the cinema and bar complex outside the Millennium Stadium into new flats and a casino. It is nearly ten years since Wales’ only Olympic size pool was demolished and the publicly owned land given away because, it [...]
