Minnie’s Musings

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  • Somewhere in the Middle

    Lies the truth. I am a big fan of Katie Razzle – lately seen on the News, failing to conceal her irritation with the powers that be which run her employer, the BBC. She also does a podcast which pulls apart a current phenomenon. In this case cancellation culture. In Anatomy of a Cancellation she…

  • Trump to the Rescue?

    Okay, there is some decidedly twisted logic in this one… The BBC is on the rack. The Conservatives and Reform are howling with vigorous outrage. Ed Davie is being sensible (though likely deciding against diving into a silo as an illustrative stunt). Phone ins are lit up by people who really do have better things…

  • Rolling Heads

    They have indeed! The BBC DG and Head of News have been allowed to resign (not sacked, you note). But I am curious as to the position of the commissioning editor of Panorama from whence the two key scandals of this year have emerged. An otherwise interesting and heart breaking documentary on the children of…

  • Cannot Wait

    For the fashion for kinky hair to go out of fashion. I am currently watching Nobody Wants This on Netflix as my antidote to insomnia. Kristen Thingumy has one of these kicking haircuts. At 4am it vexes me in a quite irrational way. Do none of these women see that it makes them look like…

  • Second Sleep

    After reading Robert Harris’s – not up to his usual standard – book a year or two ago and then a BBC article on the sleeping habits of medieval Brits, I am obsessing about the concept of the Second Sleep. Primarily this is because I wake up at roughly 4am almost every night and fail…

  • Expensive Promises

    Are the purview of left wing politicians. Universal childcare and free buses are the new order of the day in New York following the victory of Mandan. These are not promises that will be easy to deliver and may indeed be impossible to deliver. The electorate may know this. Or they may be delusional in…

  • Change for the Good?

    This may be another post where I change my mind half way through… Former candidate for the second to top job, Bridget Phillipson can now focus her attention back on the job in hand and model the hard work and concentration she would like to see from students throughout the land by actually running the…

  • School Runs and Teenagers

    Goodness me, aren’t secondary school runs hell on earth?! And I thought primary ones were a nightmare with parents risking their lives of their moppets because the five or ten minutes it might take to park up and walk junior to the gate is time they do not want to waste. Add in the odd…

  • Taking It Back

    In part. He isn’t advocating for a return to the fifties. He is advocating for proper and effective restrictions on social media where the views of violent misogynists are so prevalent and powerful. In fact he also points to the link between social media and self harm among girls and boys. Good for him. My…

  • Depressed

    Almost in the same breath as trailing yet more analysis of the Andrew Windsor saga (though how one can find a breath to draw in the breathless coverage of the demise of HRH Sleaze in Chief is a mystery) an interview with the author of a book on the danger of unemployed and lonely young…