Gentlemen, I've long been a user of your services and up until now have always regarded you an excellent supplier of quality programming. I have every faith therefore that you will do what you can to rectify this problem.Children cannot act and they should not be allowed on television. All the parts of characters who are children should be played by women or animals. Circus animals.To resolve the problem I require you to reshoot the children’s drama The Story of Tracy Beaker with an appropria... Read Full Story
Gentlemen, I've long been a user of your services and up until now have always regarded you an excellent supplier of quality programming. I have every faith therefore that you will do what you can to rectify this problem.Children cannot act and they should not be allowed on television. All the parts of characters who are children should be played by women or animals. Circus animals.To resolve the problem I require you to reshoot the children’s drama The Story of Tracy Beaker with an appro... Read Full Story
The Americans were voting Tuesday. But which Americans? Who was turning out? All eyes were on young voters in swing states.There is no doubt that among the young there was, indeed is, an energy and excitement – and, I daresay, an optimism – about this election that other’s just haven’t produced.Young people were asking each other, “Did you vote yet?” It was the only story in the media that night, but it was also the only story in the coffee houses and the campuses, it was the word on the stre... Read Full Story
As British networks filled time between polls closing, reporters are grabbed influential Brits to test the pulse of the Old Country.Always ready with an opinion is Christopher Hitchens: “I think it’s a zeitgeist change. It’s an historic, seismic change. The middle-class has flipped hard against the Republican Party. On its watch all the important things about the American Dream have gone sour.”Even comic Ricky Gervais had his two cents: “I’ve never been interested in politics. I rarely vote i... Read Full Story
Barack Obama spoke in Grant Park in Chicago, IL at 12:00am ET on Wednesday, November 5, 2008. He spoke thus:Hello, Chicago.If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders whether the dream of our fathers is alive in our time, who questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited th... Read Full Story
It’s the question that’s been on the tip of the brain of every serious political commentator for decades. It’s about time one of us came out and said it. As usual that someone will have to be me.Is Barack Obama too skinny to lead the free world?The free world is increasingly a fat world. An elitist beanpole risks alienating the fatheads of wobbly-middle America. He may be the thinnest, but he wouldn’t be the first.The phenomenon of ‘Too Thin to Win’ was first noted by the celebrated political... Read Full Story
Barack Obama spoke in Grant Park in Chicago, IL at 12:00am ET on Wednesday, November 5, 2008. He spoke thus:Hello, Chicago.If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders whether the dream of our fathers is alive in our time, who questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited th... Read Full Story
The 44th President of the United States will be Barack Obama.11pm: East coast polling closes and states are officially projected for Barack Obama. California was called first. Washington followed seconds later, bringing Obama votes to over the required 270 and sending him into the White House.ABC, CNN, NBC and the BBC have call the election for the Democratic candidate.Victory marks the end of a momentous campaign. Mobilising thousands upon thousands of volunteers a much more democratic model... Read Full Story
The 44th President of the United States will be Barack Obama.11pm: East coast polling closes and states are officially projected for Barack Obama. California was called first. Washington followed seconds later, bringing Obama votes to over the required 270 and sending him into the White House.ABC, CNN, NBC and the BBC have call the election for the Democratic candidate.Victory marks the end of a momentous campaign. Mobilising thousands upon thousands of volunteers a much more democratic model... Read Full Story
Noted historian Simon Schama let his Obama support get the better of him when he interrupted a reptort to ask the show’s host,“Aren’t you going to call the election, David?”Host David Dimbleby, who had earlier announced that Fox News wasn’t good enough for the BBC to report an Obama victory in Ohio, responded by questioning Schama’s credibility as an historian and chastising him for wanting to report the story before having all the facts.Although at the time Schama was sitting next to the sta... Read Full Story
