He's your mate, he is, he's your mate.

[Globaltruth]

Oh, he's had a book out. I wondered what was going on with this thread.

er, perhaps better off wondering why he suddenly appeared on the Graun's website ...product placement baby, product placement.


actually we could look into thread sponsorship I'm sure ff would approve -
just think, nice ads down the sidebars, pop-ups, tracking cookies profiling your web browsing history & making focussed retail suggestions ()

[pauses to consider recommending an ad-blocker, then decides not to]

[ian russell]

er, perhaps better off wondering why he suddenly appeared on the Graun's website ...product placement baby, product placement.


actually we could look into thread sponsorship I'm sure ff would approve -
just think, nice ads down the sidebars, pop-ups, tracking cookies profiling your web browsing history & making focussed retail suggestions ()

[pauses to consider recommending an ad-blocker, then decides not to]

Anyone can appear on the Guardian's website now. And they've recently launched a video ''Comment is Free'' facility. I told you, they hate journalism.

I suppose I might have guessed why he was on. Though it wasn't explicitly promoting a book, I'm often cynical whenever a hitherto absent c'leb is wheeled blinking into the limelight to offer opinion on the state of affairs. But I don't buy books anymore, so I don't find myself in Waterstone's perusing the three for twos (they may even have gone broke, like Habitat, and I wouldn't know - unless it was in the Guardian).

[Lateralthinking1]

I'm more for the Independent. Have to say that I don't really welcome this book. Potentially, it seems to place him on the rack somewhere between Jordan and Lampard. And I am not sure that it does him any favours to be a celebrity anti-celebrity.

Non-financially, this may have been the time to temper the fire. He could have been emerging as a kind of Tony Adams. Better still, we could have had something from him wholly about music. I have that strange half-autobiography by Peel which didn't make me feel good either. I think I prefer the personalities of music presenters to be heard mainly through their work.

(Incidentally, I truly believe that he would benefit from emotional support on the loss of Peel and Walters because I feel instinctively that there were bereavement issues there which then led to the other difficulties).