That’s it, yes, you. Thicky. Jana Bennett, director of BBC Vision*, said that members of the public (that’s you again, keep up you idiot) won’t understand why the salaries of our highest paid “stars” are so high. The issue is too complex for you to comprehend or usefully contribute to […]

Well temporarily stun TheEye with an item of avian plumage. We learn from the BBC that people drink on holiday. No, contain your shock, horror and righteous indignation. And its phrased in a very negative way too…booze…not alcohol or fine local wines. It’s 8 drinks a day, which they multiply by […]

Posted only a couple of hours ago on the Grauniad website (never let TheEye be accused of not being in the fast stream of news *groan*) we learn that the BBC spends £406,000 a year of our taxpayers money on bottled water. According to reporter Donnachadh McCarthy (TheEye would love […]

There are times when you have just got to know when to keep your mouth shut. Like when the Sergeant-Major asks for volunteers or McDoom is looking for replacement ministers. In a classic example of how not to do it, a Saudi man has been arrested for boasting about his […]

Tip of the ‘fillet ‘o fish’ to Gigits for spotting this one. Browsing through the BBC’s website, I noticed an article about Gordon Brown rushing to a fishmongers, after the owner’s wife challenged him about the lack of help for small businesses, during a phone-in show on local radio. You […]

I wonder if you share my bemusement at the fact that on a day when employees of the British Embassy in Tehran are seized by the Mad Mullahs, the BBC world news service leads with the shock horror that Michael Jackson is still dead? Sha-mon.