A while back, I used to do a weekly newsletter.
It threw open the doors to the production meeting on my old talkRADIO show and let you in what we were thinking that week and how we decided what to talk about.
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We ask ourselves a lot of questions when we’re putting the show together. Should we talk about this? Is this helpful? Is it responsible? Does it make good radio? Is it interesting? Does anybody care? This weekend, we’ve asked ourselves a new one. Do we talk about this too much? This week, the issue
Read → December 18, 2020
Imagine my excitement today, at finding something new in a story that’s becoming exhaustingly repetitive. I haven’t seen a single newspaper headline, tweet or Facebook status using the pun ‘Oh Tier, What a Mess’. The only thing more tiresome than the COVID measures themselves are the puns. If my single
Read → November 27, 2020
Dominic Cummings is a destroyer. More politely, a deconstructionist. He takes things he disapproves of and he dismantles them. Britain in Europe, the civil service, the Education system. His path through the civic institutions of Britain can be tracked by the mangled wreckage he leaves behind. And he does so
Read → November 14, 2020
Where attention would ordinarily be on the last few days of the campaign - the drive to get out the vote and convince that last handful of undecideds - the smarter minds are more focused on what comes next. And they aren’t wondering what TV deal Trump might sign. Coming up
Read → October 30, 2020
Sometimes, you have to work hard to find a topical hook for a story you want to do. Other times, they pile up like trucks at the Kent border. Two of the week’s biggest stories have blown open some of the social and economic gaps that still linger over modern Britain,
Read → October 23, 2020A few years ago, a producer for a popular TV news network called me for an opinion on a story with the reasoning that – said in jest, I think – I ‘always seem happy to harp on about the north being hard done by’. It was a jovial dig
Read → October 23, 2020
I bled a radiator this week. Not that I want to pander to toxic gender stereotypes, but I bloody nailed it because I’m a bloody man. We had a problem with the boiler. It started making a disturbing rumbling noise on Monday. After several days of doing what men also
Read → October 10, 2020Get my weekly newsletter in your inbox every Friday – I peel back the curtain on what we have planned for the weekend’s shows on talkRADIO. Subscribe here. Donald Trump contracting COVID-19 is strange news to process. It is not unprecedented. Boris Johnson was, of course, struck down at the
Read → October 07, 2020In the last decade, patriotism has become an uncomfortable, thorny subject. It has been hijacked by the extremes. Populist political leaders, world over, have used it as a vehicle to carry people on their prejudices. And it has worked. Brilliantly. It's time to reclaim it.
Read → September 29, 2020Coming up this weekend on talkRADIO...
Read → September 18, 2020