What has happened to production values in BBC local radio? Well, I assume they once had them! BBC Radio Merseyside is the regional station based
Author: Christopher England
The Inequality of being an English White
We are told we are equal, and we must fight to stop discrimination and to pretend that we are not all different. I actually find
The Hare and the Tortoise
On your marks. Get set… ~ ~ There’s plenty more, plus the option to comment on this at: http://www.ChristopherEngland.com ~ ~
The day I looked God in the eye
I attended a church service the other day. Does this mean I’m turning into a god-botherer? It wasn’t any small church either. It was the
Could Radio Caroline return from a ship at sea?
I read with interest that some men who wear armchairs want to re-start Radio Caroline back in the North Sea as a pirate radio station.
Beware the super-moon
We’re all doomed! The super-moon is coming! When you see the moon today you won’t realise it but it will be 14% bigger than if
Zmmmm Wooshhmmmm Vwooom
I can’t believe I just did that. I’m just sooooo predictable. Sorry. ~ ~ There’s plenty more, plus the option to comment on this at:
Liverpool votes for a Mayor, but not for wanting one
Today, parts of England are voting. In Liverpool we are voting for local councillors and also for a new Mayor. We’ve not had an
Laser 558, the last fun radio station
A gazillion years ago (well, back in the mid-1980s) there were two radio stations operating from ships in the North Sea. There was the old
What if Simon Cowell was openly gay?
Of course, I’m not even slightly saying Simon Cowell is gay, after all he has recently been engaged to be married and there are many
The truth is out there, but where?
Nobody believes anything anybody says any more. There are parts of the world where this is not the case. North Korea might be an example.
Why bother putting books inside libraries?
I stumbled into Walton Library recently. Now, like most libraries, it is a waste of time and space, despite being housed inside a lovely building.
Capital Radio heads in One Direction
When Harry, the one who had all the hair, from the X-Factor created band One Direction did the ‘thank-yous’ at the Brit Awards he put his
Too much drought falling on my head
It’s been another week of extreme drought here in the UK. The drought, which has led to a ban on using hosepipes, has been falling
Whatever happened to the Melting Pot?
I don’t get it. It’s gone. Well, the shell is still there, but as an entity it has gone. Sigh. Happier yummier days I’m talking
Children of God were literally children
Tales of early playground bullying? The Torah and the Bible recount a time when humans were far much more immature and, literally, younger. Very rarely
It may happen in May
I’ve long been a fan of Piers Corbyn and his Weatheraction.com site and his longer range weather forecasts. According to him, he has an 85%
There’ll always be an England?
It’s National English Day today. Every country has a national day. Most of them celebrate their national day loudly and proudly. Some countries declare a
Earth Day Bollox back in the 1970s
Today it is Earth Day (22nd April, every year). Not to be confused with the pointless ‘Earth Hour’ when mad people from madland around the
Giants roam the streets of Liverpool
At about 1 o’clock on Friday morning I was fumbling my way through the park perfectly innocently, ok? I happened upon a little girl who
Vocal about The Voice
The Voice on BBC1 has to be good. I mean, the meeja god Simon Cowell has ordered that ITV re-schedule his ITV1 Britain’s Got Talent
Air show Disaster
Oh my goodness. Be warned. This is really tough to look at. It just shows the dangers of attending these events. Air shows quite
London’s telly-watchers will all explode today
Well, today’s the day when Londoners bleat and moan and slash their wrists. For today’s the day that analogue TV gets switched off forever. Here
Euronet was bloody good fun
I don’t keep recordings, picture or memorials of things long gone. So, I have nothing to remind me of the year long 1992 to 1993
Cunning Chinese make fat people explode
Whilst the western world spends its time staring suspiciously at anybody of an Arabic(ish)/Middle Eastern origin or appearing to be dressed in an Islamic way
Analogue clocks are favoured by mad people!
I am not alone in not being able to understand these round things with shapes and a few numbers on that are supposed to tell
The Grand National Annual Cull
We should congratulate the humans that decided to operate a sort of ‘natural selection’ system for the culling of old horses. It’s so much better
Friday the 13th
…That’s the last time I laugh at date superstition, damnit. ~ ~ There’s plenty more, plus the option to comment on this at: http://www.ChristopherEngland.com ~
Just as you thought nothing ever happens
This is a fantastic. I’ve always been a fan of flash-mobbing and the work of the Improv Everywhere group, so this, well, just takes it
Radio for communities of interest
I’ve spoken before about my personal definition of community radio (here). Well, community-access radio. But, I might be slightly wrong by not being completely inclusive.
What the astronauts say
This stolen from the Watts Up With That site. It’s a poster made by one of the readers, and it is a very nice background
What is the point of community radio?
Back in the 1970s, I was the man behind a year long pirate radio experiment. We were attempting a weekly broadcast of “community-access” radio. “Community-access”
Modern day engine flooding
Now then, these days, how does one tell if the engine’s flooded? Are the fish a hint? ~ ~ There’s plenty more, plus the option
Istanbul is a scream
Ok, when it comes to naming a restaurant, calling it ‘Istanbul’ surely indicates that it is themed as a Chinese. Only kidding, I meant Turkish,
They want you dead
What is it with those suffering from the Global Warming religion? They hate humanity soooo much, that they want drastic measures taken to reduce the
Square Testicles
An elderly woman walked into the Royal Bank of Scotland one morning with a purse full of money. She wanted to open a savings account
The best Indian Takeaway. Evah!
People who know me, know that I eat anything. That’s why I’m a fat bastard. One of my pleasures is the ‘curry’, although I hate
Space ribbon?
Fantastic! It’s a joke though surely? I mean the weight of this ribbon thing and the friction as the earth revolves must make it impossible.
Adsense? Nonsense.
I’ve had a bit of a falling out with Google Adsense over porn. You will notice that the world famous award winning christopherengland.com is
Stop Boredom – Be Cillie
April 1st is traditionally April Fool’s Day. A day when we trick our fellow humans with hilarious pranks and jolly japes. These day, of course,
Resist the Earth Hour, be free of mind
Today, you should free your mind and not fall for the Eco-Nazis and Enviro-Taliban call for you to sit in darkness during their annual ‘Earth
Today I will be mostly cutting my hedge
Being a Londoner, and coming from an area where nobody speaks the same language (mine is a minority one in East London, called ‘English’), I
Ever decreasing attention spans
It might be a good thing that modern generations are increasingly multi-tasking, but it does seem that they are also increasingly unable to concentrate on
Fat people hearing the Hungry signal
The cruelty and taunts from those who aren’t fat aimed at those who are have crushed confidence and led to many a suicide. Fat people
On the turn
Look carefully. Is he looking straight ahead? Are you sure? Is he looking to the left of the photo? Are you sure? ~ ~ There’s
James Delingpole eats Bacon
Here’s what happened. Richard Bacon has a talk ‘show’ on BBC Radio 5 Live. Last week he interviewed James Delingpole. Until mid-April 2012, you can
Christopher England exists
A sobering thought for a Sunday (Sundays being one of the religions’ holy days of course). ~ ~ There’s plenty more, plus the option to
If this then that
Possibly not enough is said about the excellent service iftt.com. I guess you could say it’s for lazy people, or you could say it’s for
CCTV should be everywhere
The entire country should be covered in CCTV cameras. Their output should be fed back to a huge central processing centre, and from here everything
An eye test
Ok, with my trusty camera I look down between my legs and take a shot. What do you see? That’s right, you see two pigs
Scott Mills and Chris Moyles
Things are always changing at BBC Radio One. That’s what makes it interesting and ‘new’. It’s what it has to do in order to be
A hand job by any other name
This is, er, ‘coming soon’ to Walton Vale. I wonder if those providing the service will be the usual butch Eastern European men, or if
Get the global warming religion bias out of TV news
At the moment, I seem to be very angry with the eco-loonies behind the global warming religion. My reasoning is that it is because of
Who’s the Daddy?
The following are (supposedly) all replies that women have written on Child Support Forms in the section for listing “Father’s details.” 1. Regarding the identity
Low carbon recipes? Ffs!
When is this madness about man-made climate change going to stop? The massive huge corporations are so frightened of the damage that the eco-loonies behind
Riding the Booster
Fantastic. This is real video footage taking from the fore and aft cameras mounted on board one of the booster rockets used to get the
Never more than a minute away from music
Nobody human knows why, but somewhere along the way, the programmers of commercial music radio stations decided they were scared of the music they played.
The tale of the mood ring
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More outrageous biased BBC news reporting
It is alarming how the BBC still continues to be used as a major propaganda machine on a range of different topics, such as Climate
Oi Catholics, leave gays alone!
What is it with these mad god-botherers and their constant need to control people? Ah, of course, it’s about control, isn’t it. God-botherers love to
Americans are just so backward & anything but free!
Americans love to control everything. Cleverly they use the word ‘freedom’ a lot and there’s a lot of propaganda associated with their global desire to
Help me look for pussy?
There’s a pussy in this picture, but where? It’s a puzzle a bit like Where’s Wally? (or Where’s Waldo?). Can you find my pussy
Make Bradford British
Channel four’s two parter “Make Bradford British” has had the expected panning from the mainly White and definitely Middle-class journalists, but I thought it was
What is the Liverpool noise?
When the ambient hubbub and general noise of Liverpool reduces to a murmur, that’s when people notice it. It’s there all the time of course, well,
The Polar Bear that was never there
A lot of people create pictures from Photoshop, compiling from different images they have, and they allow their glorious and quite striking results to be
Google, please stop it before my head explodes
Google, Google, Google. Google, you know I love you. You know I’m loyal. You know I host all my domains through your wonderful Google Apps,
Science and the Environment shouldn’t be seen together
When you put two words together into a phrase like “Love and Marriage” or “Horse and Carriage” you kind of expect them to actually somehow
Would you know a dictator?
Could you really tell? I mean, before they become a dictator they look so innocent. So. Would you really know a dictator if you saw
Sorry David Rathband, we failed you
I want to talk about PC David Rathband. It is my policy not to mention the name of torturers or murderers, but to refer only
Marrying a Northern girl
There is a difference in ability of the housewife when comparing marriages from the South to marriages from the North. Three men were recently interviewed
Dydd Gwŷl Dewi hapus
March is the month for the Irish to celebrate their Irishness. They do this by getting very drunk on the 17th, St Patrick’s Day. (Please
February the 29th
Today doesn’t exist most years. It’s Leap Year’s Day. I dunno if being born on February 29th is annoying or if it makes a person
The demonisation of carbon dioxide
We are starting to enter a period when, despite its teaching in schools as fact, voices are finally being heard that say all is not
Proof that we can never trust journalists
I’m supposed to be able to trust my local (well, regional) paper to tell me the truth and to be accurate about stuff. But I
Universal Truth Number One
A lot of people say that Christopher England is from another planet. I’ve no idea how they found out, but hey, humans miss out on
Steve Conway is 25 years old
That annoying Steve Conway has been at it again. I’ve reported in the past about how I have been a sufferer of Steve Conway Envy,
Flashback Friday: 1997, part 3
I have been blogging since before the word blogging was invented. Before Google was around, before Facebook, before Youtube, before Myspace, yes, I was blogging.
Why do we ignore the inter-dimensional beings?
I’ve never understood why humans generally don’t discuss what happens to them at night. I can only assume it’s because they are in denial. The
Will the Dollar fall?
Oh deary deary me. These are worrying times. Very worrying times. Yet, there are a few of us who are able and capable of protecting
The cost of your alcohol abuse
You drunks and alcies have been in the news again. You are costing us a fortune. You are terrorising hospital staff and getting in the
Sprinkle when you tinkle
Moan moan moan. I’ve written before about women and their obsession with the toilet seat being up or down, as if they are the only
The ‘Grate’ Toilet Seat Debate
Men and women are different to each other. There are a number of places that this difference causes a little friction. One is in the
Why aren’t they listening to Radio City?
I do an unscientific bit of radio research. I can’t help it. I’m an anorak, so it’s in my genes. Whilst most humans are oblivious
Flashback Friday: 1997, part 2
I have been blogging since before the word blogging was invented. Before Google was around, before Facebook, before Youtube, before Myspace, yes, I was blogging.
Are we ready for the real climate change?
I bet we are not. We’ve been so cleverly indoctrinated by the highly over-funded left-wing advocacy groups like Greenpeace, the WWF and hundreds of others, into believing
How likely is my Bluetooth headset to work again?
NB: Not my Bluetooth headset. Not even my face, honest. The additional information you need: It fell off my ear and into the loo. It
The Valentine’s Day hype
Look, I do realise that Valentine’s Day is a hype. It is a device used to generate profit for those who publish and sell cards.
Not enough people in prison are killing themselves
Here’s something I put ‘out there’ on Google Plus (which copies to Twitter and Facebook) for small debate and discussion. Because of the radical nature
Killing witches in England
For normal people it is hard enough to accept that there are still god-botherers in this enlightened age. It’s a relief that in the ‘freer’
The Otter’s Cafe with no otters
Maybe it’s not ideal for this kind of weather, but there’s an 8 kilometre walk along the River Mersey. It can get a bit boring,
Flashback Friday: 1997, part 1
I have been blogging since before the word blogging was invented. Before Google was around, before Facebook, before Youtube, before Myspace, yes, I was blogging.
Choosing a wife
I recently got married. Yay! It wasn’t easy choosing who of the three ladies I was dating I should allow the privilege of calling herself Mrs
The day I nearly made toast of a major superstore
People like toast. I like toast. Toast smells nice. Mid-mornings people want toast. So, we bought a toaster. Rather, I was sent out to buy
Happy Birthday to me (again)!
Aw. Shucks. You’ve come here because you know it’s my birthday, innit. Yes, today, February 7th is my birthday. Today is almost as bad for
Radio presenters talk in lumps
Why do people on music-radio talk in lumps? Why are they so afraid of the songs the radio station plays? Where does the research say
A good Pacman work-out
Bloody hell. When they asked if I wanted to play an old retro game of Pacman, I never thought I’d get so exhausted. I need
The World’s Strictest Parents
A BBC Three series called “The World’s Strictest Parents” has been taking up my time over recent days. I’ve had to watch all of it.
Yes, Climate Change will kill us all
There’s a website called Zombie Time. It is the home of zombie. The lovely zombie is an observer of things, but because he observes by
Where to park a woman-thing when she’s not in use
When it comes to relationships and women, I don’t like to blow my own trumpet, but I am an expert. After many years of trial
The Twisted Radio Caroline
I’ve discussed before how there are a largely mentally abnormal folk who are fans of Radio Caroline. They are also known as ‘anoraks’. Indeed, these
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