If you take the BBC’s website at face value, you might think that hardly anyone – or, at least, a minority – uses soap in solid bars any more. As the article puts it: How do you like to scrub … Continue reading
8 March 2015
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6 May 2013
by Mark
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Licence to swill
Apropos the continuing furore over the late Jimmy Savile and the definitely not late Stuart Hall, the names of Andy Grey and Richard Keys sprang to mind. In case you’d forgotten (or the whole case had passed you by to … Continue reading
7 December 2012
by Mark
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BBC headlines are ‘mostly guff’
One of the things that irritates me a lot about the BBC news website is its tendency to use quotes as headlines. That is, where all or part of the headline is simply a quote of what someone else has … Continue reading