On this date back in 1967, BBC Radio 1 was born. Happy Birthday, Radio 1. 46 years old, and still sounding like a modern teenager.
Month: September 2013
Christianity rapidly dying whilst Islam conquers
It is obviously the case that we are currently seeing the slow demise of Christianity in this world. An end date, less than a hundred
Drunk tanks and stigmatising the alcie arseholes
There are ideas to try to free up police time, energy and resources, by plonking drunks into privately run drunk tanks, for which they would
A Muslim man must hate his non-Muslim wife
A growing number of non-Muslim women in the UK are entering into relationships with Muslim men. Do they understand that their husbands hate them? Probably
Labour wants scroungers to have loads of spare rooms
The Labour Party’s millionaire socialist leader (wouldn’t it be nice if the leader of a party wasn’t from a privileged background!) Red Ed has rallied
Confused Supermarkets
Having previously reported on the horror of daytime shopping in supermarkets, there is a side issue I need to address. It’s about the confused signals.
My Trolley Rage
Okay, I’m getting to grips with this shopping lark, but I am suffering from trolley rage. Supermarkets. You get a trolley, walk around the stacks
The day they killed LBC
Today is a sad day. A very sad day. For today I was forced to say goodbye to LBC. Forever. Today LBC radio was switched
Islam, the religion of peace?
Three of the main world religious viruses started in the Middle East. Of the three, Christianity appears to have matured to being one of the
Push to Talk Betamax
In the dark and distant days of the beginning of digital mobile telephony, I remember Orange had introduced a new phone that included the ability
The school photo that could never be
This is, obviously, a joke cartoon. I spotted it posted by somebody on Facebork. I stole it and brought it here: Now, the thing is,
Rabid Rabbi rues reason and free thinking
Some retiring rabid rabbi is slagging off our society, as old people do, but not apologising for the pure evil that his religion and derivatives
We need more singing lifts
You’ve heard of ‘elevator muzak’, right? That’s the lounge-style stuff that’s already burbling away in a lift (the proper name for what Americans call ‘elevator’)
The climate evolution to cooler times
For reasons that are all too clear, the specialist work of correlating the Sun’s activity (or lack of it) to climate evolution on this planet
Plastic bags should be free, free, free!
England, it seems, is about to go the same way as other parts of the United Kingdom. In Wales and Northern Ireland, the Green bullies
The WordPress – tumblr – Blogger – WordPress route
I don’t really recall it, but the evidence seems to suggest that in 2007 I moved from wherever I was writing before, and started using
Changes, we fear changes!
Things have changed. The famous Christopher England dot com has had a re-boot. Please bear with me as I get it all pretty and functioning
Rising from the ashes?
This is pretty cool. It’s also weird to think how very long it has taken to build this. From 2004 through to 2013 is 9
The truth about how things began
In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the
Climate Evolution and the coming Ice Age
It is a shock to a significant number of people that our climate is evolving and it is doing so without much input from the
Memories of ‘9/11’
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American Ignorance as standard
I think it’s only when you take a step back and really take a look at Americans, well, the ones in the United States, not
Why idolise Elvis impersonators?
What exactly is the mental condition that fans suffer from that makes them idolise people who make a living out of impersonating somebody who is
How religion is eating us alive
We all know what a virus is. Some viruses are not too dangerous, but most of the viruses that invade our body make us unwell
Is it refreshing when a community makes a stand?
I recently penned a brilliant piece (here) about how a caller to the Pete Price radio phone-in had been incandescent with rage because Jamie Oliver
Ronan O’Rahilly
I recently wrote a tongue in cheek article about Radio Caroline. However this, in contrast, is a very sombre few words on a very related
Radio Caroline Extra Extra, read all about it
It is compulsory for me to mention Radio Caroline at least once every few months, so as I listen to Carmen Allgood‘s excellent Indie Music
Being a stranger in your own land
For many years I lived in North and East London. All my post teenage years, and up until about 5 years ago (when I got
Here’s to the fourth new identity
Once upon a time there was a cute little toddler called James. A little over twenty years ago, in 1993, he died. He was just
Sara Cox limbos out of Fearne Cotton’s way
Fearne Cotton returns to Radio 1‘s mid morning show this week, leaving Sara Cox with nowhere to go. Sara Cox exits Radio 1 and it’s
