When Suicide Takes Or Risks The Lives Of Others
The revelation a few days ago that Andreas Lubitz, co-pilot of Germanwings flight 4U 9525, deliberately crashed the Airbus 320 killing himself and 149 innocent passengers was almost beyond...
View ArticleUndersea adventures with the Octonauts Live
The CBeebies series The Octonauts is a favourite in our house, so when I saw there was a live-on-stage version on tour we just had to go along and it didn’t disappoint The producers have done a good...
View ArticleThis is probably the most English sign you’ll ever see!
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View ArticleMy favourite political gaffe videos
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View ArticleThe camera can lie (well sort of…)
I saw this photo on Facebook this morning. At first I thought: “That’s a bit daft and insensitive – they can’t preach austerity and then order loads of champagne (probably at taxpayers’ expense)” Then...
View ArticleIn Olive Cooke’s memory, help someone to stop the tide of begging letters and...
I was really upset and concerned to read about the tragic end of the life of 92-year-old Olive Cooke, who had been receiving around 180 letters a month from charities and was plagued by phone calls....
View ArticleWhy @asda @tesco @sainsburys & @morrisons should do the right thing over...
Watching television presenter Claudia Winkleman talking on BBC’s One’s Watchdog programme last night about the moment her eight-year-daughter Matilda’s Halloween fancy dress costume caught fire...
View ArticleFrom TV to stage: Tree Fu Tom Live
We went to the theatre yesterday to see Tree Fu Tom Live – a stage version of the very popular Cbeebies show. My son loves the television programme and the real-life version didn’t disappoint....
View ArticleA tourist thought it would be funny to mock a British soldier guarding The...
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View ArticleRemembering Miriam… and the other victims of 7/7
Today I have been remembering Miriam Hyman and thinking about her and the 51 other people killed in the 7/7 London bombings – and, of course, their families. Miriam was a picture researcher at BBC...
View ArticlePaying tribute to Only Fools and Horses producer Ray Butt
Ray Butt was the original producer of Only Fools and Horses and was instrumental in getting the show on television. Sadly Ray died two years ago, aged 78. I was asked to contribute to a tribute on BBC...
View ArticleWhy Jeremy Corbyn shouldn’t be slated for not kneeling for the Queen
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is getting flack for apparently not being willing to kneel in front of HM The Queen in order to become a Privy Councillor. I doubt HM The Queen would care that...
View ArticleThe day Terry Wogan bought me a coffee
I was really sad to hear about the death of Sir Terry Wogan. Like so many people, I grew up listening to him on Radio 2 as he was a favourite of my parents. Later, of course, his BBC One chat show...
View ArticleRonnie Corbett – brilliant comedy actor and lovely man
Incredibly sad news about Ronnie Corbett. Anyone who, like me, grew up in the UK in the seventies and eighties would have almost certainly spent many happy hours watching The Two Ronnies with their...
View ArticleFreedom of Information release: South Downs National Park’s Share The Path...
My article about how the South Downs National Park Authority has just spend £35,000 of taxpayers’ money telling people to be friendly to other park users was published in The Mail On Sunday yesterday....
View ArticleFirst look at new versions of comedy classics Are You Being Served, Porridge...
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View ArticleFrom sleepy village street to Ladybird cover picture
I’ve always loved the old series of Ladybird books and now my son likes to read my old battered copies (many of them themselves second-hand)… Of course, some of the non-fiction ones are rather out of...
View ArticleTalking to children about terrorism
This morning I sat down with my son and told him about yesterday’s terrorist attack in London. In the past when there have been other attacks in Tunisia, Nice, Paris, Brussels and so on I have tried to...
View ArticleSir David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst confirm that Only Fools and Horses...
This isn’t really news – as we’ve known there won’t be any more episodes of Only Fools and Horses for a long time. Now, while attending the National Film Awards earlier this week, both Sir David Jason...
View ArticleThe death of Diana: Private tragedy, public grief
It is 20 years since the tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The loss of this undoubtedly gifted woman whose ability to connect with ordinary people and whose willingness to engage with...
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