Entries from October 2009

27/10/2009

Jeremy Kyle gets new show, families everywhere hide

Struggling families everywhere should find the nearest sofa and hide behind it. Jeremy Kyle is on the lookout for you. From Digital Spy: Jeremy Kyle is reportedly set to host a new ITV programme in a deal worth £1 million. The chatshow host will go into people’s homes to offer advice on how they can [...]

26/10/2009

Tim Minchin at the Hammersmith Apollo

I saw Tim Minchin perform what he described as the biggest gig of his career on Saturday and it was very, very good. I’d tell you what he did but he filmed it for a new DVD I believe, so you might as well wait until that comes out. Instead, here’s one he didn’t do:

23/10/2009

Is the job market getting better for journalists?

We might be in our worst recession in modern times but it seems like the worst of the dry journalism jobs situation may be over. In the last week I have seen a flurry of job advertisements, in all mediums, appear on various sites. Journalism.co.uk posted a blog entry today summarising some of the jobs [...]

21/10/2009

Why the BNP row is non-existent

Yes, the BNP are a terrible political party. Their policies, which contain so many traces of racism and homophobia amongst other things, are downright incomprehensible and their leader, Nick Griffin, is a total buffoon. I get this. But surely by blocking him the right to have his say we’re corrupting the whole basis of democracy? [...]

21/10/2009

Canvas comes out tomorrow

Canvas, the student newspaper of the UCA, gets reborn tomorrow with a new issue. Well, they went to print yesterday and copies do exist but we’re giving them out tomorrow instead. Either way, I’m happy that we’ve got something coming out. Lots of really good stories are in the paper, including my news feature about [...]