OK, I'm going to admit to being one of the 20m-odd people who watched the final of Britian's Got Talent and I'm surprised to say that I quite enjoyed it, mostly because the Boyler didn't win and some dancing chavs did. Residents of her home town in Scotland, overcome by nationalism, blamed...
I've worked for some unutterable articles (or as the prospective Tory candidate for Gloucester might say 'councillors') in my time and I've never had any desire to work for either Simon Cowell or Sir Alan Sugar. It seems that the nation's sweetheart, the pie-faced foul-mouthed religious...
There isn't much to see on the Hammersmith Road unless you're a fan of vagrants, enjoy watching the odd lost and disappointed-looking tourist realising that the Novotel isn't quite as glamorous or central as it looked in the brochure, or get a kick out of seeing people nearly getting run...
To avoid accusations of predictability, I'm not going to rant about the search for someone to play Jade Goody in a stage show - it's beyond parody anyway - or that Father Ted's Mrs Doyle has had a shave after finding success on Britain's Got Talent. I make no apology however for having...
Some readers thought that my last couple of blog posts were trite. But I'm afraid that they are completely wrong. What I was attempting to demonstrate is that the selective use of popular keywords, rather than the value of the content itself, by media outlets is now driving the news agenda as newspapers...
It’s true. According to Visible Measures, the unexpected star of Britain’s Got Talent has received 47.7 million online views and 125,000+ comments. This trounces views of the Bush vs Shoes incident (33.2m views), Tina Fey’s impression of Sarah Palin (34.2m) and Obama’s victory night speech (18.5m). What...
Given that the popularity of this blog has now slumped to a level matched only by that of Jacqui Smith (and I know that neither Tony nor Oli are on holiday), I've decided to abandon my Damian McBride strategy and try a different tack to see if I can beat the number of readers that Janet Belmont's...
