Friday 22 April 2011

In A Bad Place

16 to 24-year-old Radio Four listeners feel lonely, according to the Radio Four disc jockey or however, in view of the following, such people are now styled. "But if you are aged 16 to 24 and listening to Radio Four, you are in a bad place."

We already have to endure the colonisation of politics and other aspects of public life by persons who, on account of other calls on their time at an impressionable age, cannot possibly have had the appropriate formative experiences. For example, listening to Radio Four.

But have they now taken over even that very station itself? When is anyone, anyone at all, going to tell them to clear off back to football, or pop music, or whatever it is that such people do?

6 comments:

  1. This is no way to talk about your former tutee who went on to become the big shot editor of the most powerful and respected newspaper in the world.

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  2. I cannot think of anyone else who could commit these truths to print without the slightest suggestion that his tongue was in his cheek. How long before we have a weekly chart rundown on Radio Four? We already have idiotic celebrity gossip aplenty.

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  3. Still, this week's In Our Time on Pelagianism took me back.

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  4. David Miliband now devotes most of his time to football. He has found his level at last.

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  5. Mr Miliband is probably at home in his new football environment. Footballers and politicians are very similar in some respects. Footballers are employed to chase a bag of wind and, nowadays, have no loyalty to the fans who support them. And most politicians are just windbags who, nowadays, have no loyalty to those who voted for them. Or am I being too critical?

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  6. Nowhere near critical enough.

    Apparently, he is doing a good job at SAFC. Let's hope that something comes up there to seal once and for all the deal that he will not have time to carry on as an MP after the next Election.

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