Talk about ‘light the blue touchpaper and retire’! The public reaction to this has been volcanic. I have been swamped by hundreds of messages which are still pouring in, all expressing fury and disgust not just with these two performers but with the BBC; the BBC’s own phonelines appear to have been in meltdown; today’s Mail, echoing many such...Tuesday, 28th October 2008
Public revulsion engulfs the BBC
11:24am
Every so often, an immense explosion of anger occurs among Britain’s normally docile public which takes everyone by surprise. It happened when the Archbishop of Canterbury made his comments about sharia; it has now happened again over the obscene phone calls to the actor Andrew Sachs by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, which were broadcast on their BBC Radio Two show. The story was written up in the Mail on Sunday and yesterday I wrote my column about it.
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
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