Gordon Brown, who apparently can't be bothered to get in touch with the families of British soldiers killed in action but was able to express concern to Simon Cowell for Susan Boyle's welfare, has weighed into another crucial topic that is dominating the media. Apparently he thinks the twins...
For malicious virus writers it’s virtually anything that’s breaking news. Most recently it’s been Google search results for the hype-rumoured death of rapper Kanye West and the managerial status of Harry Redknapp at Spurs, but in the past we’ve seen everyone from Michael Jackson to Barack Obama succumb...
I've got no real problem with the nation's obsession with Strictly Come Dancing and The X-Factor . An obsession fed each and every day by the national press - so there's instantly several pages of every paper I have little interest in as I watch neither show. But it's the tone of reverence...
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...
You have to feel sorry for ITV, it has made great efforts to develop high quality dramas and change the way it is seen, but before this project really got started the axe has fallen. Some shows have already been cut, and other big budget investments like sci-fi/dinosaur show Primeval, face an uncertain...
This is a perfect follow up to my blog piece yesterday about Simon Cowell and his mastery of the social media meme (in the forms of Susan Boyle, Paul Potts and the like). A brilliantly observed piece of meme analysis from the guys at Rocketboom (one of my favorite vlogs) - who are also the brains behind...
The other day Simon Cowell did a touching thing - he publicly announced that he'd take a pay cut from ITV. At first I thought this was Cowell's attempt to jump on the credit crunch bandwagon to come across all in-touch-with-reality as a cunning pre-emptive PR tack. However, watching what's...
It's a shame that the Duke of Edinburgh has denied that he called Simon Cowell a ‘scrounger', even though he did it with the rather elegant put-down that ‘he does not know enough about Mr Cowell to make any sort of comment about him'. I can think of a lot worse things to call him - camp old...
