Sorry for the slight 'famine or feast' nature of the blog these days. Unfortunately, as everyone around me seems to have started saying these days, "It is what it is".
(Where did the phrase "It is what it is" come from? How has it spread so quickly? And have I even understood it properly?)
Another deluge of posts will doubtless arrive from me later in the week. (Sue will be pre-warned and will reach a place of safety first).
I've got about twenty posts brewing in my head - including ones on Adrian Chiles's Panorama; the very same Adrian Chiles on Nigel Farage's resignation; a particularly snide Newsbeat 'tribute' to Nigel Farage on the BBC website; Eddie Mair's less-than-friendly interview with Nigel; Radio 4's somewhat apocalyptic, post-Brexit The Food Programme; Sunday's pro-Brexit negativity (hate crimes, racism, 'tone' of the campaign); Lord Puttnam calling for anti-Brexit views to be sidelined by the BBC as much as 'anti-global warming' voices are sidelined - and Justin Webb seemingly backing him up over that; Broadcasting House's heavy Remain-focused gloom-mongering, at both ends of the programme; The Shipping Forecast's pro-bad-weather bias (damn them!); food-loving Jeremy Bowen's heavily-biased Iraq stuff (flagrant yes, but right, semi-right, wrong or out-and-out dangerous?); even-more-food-loving Mark Mardell's slightly-more-subtly-biased post-Brexit stuff (March for Europe, huge amounts of Tony Blair, a glimpse of Suzanne Evans, etc); Victoria Derbyshire and Ed Miliband (wherein the latter surprised and the former didn't); last night's Newsnight and Evan's line of questioning about UKIP (tone, tone, tone); Martine Croxall's latest pratfall....etc, etc, etc. All that's needed is time.
I've got about twenty posts brewing in my head - including ones on Adrian Chiles's Panorama; the very same Adrian Chiles on Nigel Farage's resignation; a particularly snide Newsbeat 'tribute' to Nigel Farage on the BBC website; Eddie Mair's less-than-friendly interview with Nigel; Radio 4's somewhat apocalyptic, post-Brexit The Food Programme; Sunday's pro-Brexit negativity (hate crimes, racism, 'tone' of the campaign); Lord Puttnam calling for anti-Brexit views to be sidelined by the BBC as much as 'anti-global warming' voices are sidelined - and Justin Webb seemingly backing him up over that; Broadcasting House's heavy Remain-focused gloom-mongering, at both ends of the programme; The Shipping Forecast's pro-bad-weather bias (damn them!); food-loving Jeremy Bowen's heavily-biased Iraq stuff (flagrant yes, but right, semi-right, wrong or out-and-out dangerous?); even-more-food-loving Mark Mardell's slightly-more-subtly-biased post-Brexit stuff (March for Europe, huge amounts of Tony Blair, a glimpse of Suzanne Evans, etc); Victoria Derbyshire and Ed Miliband (wherein the latter surprised and the former didn't); last night's Newsnight and Evan's line of questioning about UKIP (tone, tone, tone); Martine Croxall's latest pratfall....etc, etc, etc. All that's needed is time.
In the meantime, please let us know anything you've spotted (or want to say) below...
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