Minnie’s Musings

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  • Just Knackered

    Term time hump… it seems that even when you teach part time in sessions rather than full days in the classroom there is a point in the term when you are just knackered. In anticipation of my evening online class last night I set my phone alarm to 6.45. Just in case I got so…

  • Incensed, Again

    Toothless Ofcom has taken yet another light touch approach to protecting women and girls online with its optional guidance that the tech giants introduce a prompt for those trolling on their platforms. Quel surprise. Because we couldn’t possibly stand up to or even have the modest expectation that a bunch of juvenile dweebs take some…

  • Sunday Night TV

    Last night I sat down to get my weekly fix of quality drama (can’t tell you how much I enjoyed Riot Women – awaiting release of the single) anticipating the latest “obsession” (daft phrase) on BBC One. And switched over to Netflix for another couple of episodes of the anodyne and predictable “Nobody Wants This”…

  • Am Shocked

    Salman Rushdie has just selected Walk on the Wild Side on Desert Island Discs. Apparently he had Lou Reed’s phone number. Well, it is quite filthy. And I quote, “Candy came from out on the Island In the backroom, she was everybody’s darling But she never lost her head Even when she was giving head”…

  • Time to Get Up

    Or not? I am minded to rise and do something useful. I am also minded to stay in bed and listen to Broadcasting House. Informative discussion on Ukraine. Do like Steve Rosenberg. He plays the piano rather well. Jeremy Bowen is also there, selecting his clip of seminal moments. In this war of existential aggression.…

  • Two Tits for One Tat

    So says one’s Best Beloved (BB). We have been debating the implications of America’s big idea for ending the war in Ukraine. Which has been set according to an American deadline governed by an American holiday, brokered by an American posse with no regard for anyone’s opinion who is not American or America’s new best…

  • And the Earth Moved

    Apparently. As some Scottish bloke lobbed the Danish goal keeper securing a spot in the World Cup for our kilted cousins. Yay! The British Geological Survey has announced that the celebrations rocked the ground to the extent that a very small earthquake ensued. Heaven knows what seismic event would ensue were they to get beyond…

  • Damp Squib

    Teachers and school children across the South East got terribly excited for roughly one hour yesterday morning as a blizzard engulfed the Home Counties and telephone trees got ready to ring into action. And then the fat, fluffy flakes (alliteration there) turned to half hearted rain and hope faded. Not a snowball in sight by…

  • Theory Two: Trusted Outlet

    Whatever happened over the Panorama programme, the BBC will remain (probably) the most trusted news outlet globally. The World Service and the 24 hour news service are two of our most valuable soft diplomacy assets.. Attacking it – and drawing everyone’s attention back to just how close you came to inciting insurrection on January 6th…

  • Theory One: Ick Sticks

    Donald Trump (DT) loves to distract attention from negative news stories. The current hop-hah over BBC splicing is a neat distraction on this side of The Pond from guess what? The Epstein Files. If there was anything good in those files about DT, he and his people would not have spent so much time and…