CHARLIE GILLETT

BBC "ON THE WIRE", 25th BIRTHDAY LIVE SHOW

BBC "ON THE WIRE",  25th BIRTHDAY LIVE SHOW
ADRIAN SHERWOOD AND STEVE BARKER PERUSE SOME VIDEO

John Peel, Legendary DJ, Musical Sage and a nice bloke.

THE MISSING JESUS AND MARY

THE MISSING JESUS AND MARY
THE MISSING JESUS AND MARY IN CLITHEROE

Thursday, March 17, 2011

KELVIN McFRENZY

I watched with some dismay as Kelvin McKensie raved and yelled on Question Time. Of course for many years he was Rupie (Dirty Digger) Murdochs henchman and worked for the well known Toilet Paper aka, the Sun. He has plenty of bluster and lots of opinions all of them stupid, out-dated and clearly dictated to him by other meddling right wing buffoons. (see Dirty Digger)
He loves Nuke power of course. so i think we should ask him when we can start disposing of dangerous nuclear waste in his garden. Its only radio-active shit and keeping all the shit in one place makes sense although Kelvin lacks sense and knows only subservience to his financial puppet masters. What can i say about such an ass-hole other than "Kelvin, shut the fuck up and give us all a rest."

FRIENDS OF THE EARTH - WARMER HOMES CAMPAIGN

Warm Homes

Millions of vulnerable people in Britain live in cold homes that make them ill and cost a fortune to heat.

Spending time in a cold, damp house can make heart disease, strokes and flu more likely. And there's an increased risk of illness and death among older people, young children and those with a disability.

Homes with shoddy insulation and inefficient boilers don't just harm people's health and leak heat.

The wasted energy means tonnes of climate-changing emissions are needlessly pumped into the atmosphere. More than a quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from heating our homes and water.

Making our homes energy efficient is one of the cheapest and quickest ways to slash CO2 and help avoid dangerous climate change.

And a nationwide overhaul of our homes would:

  • Protect people's health.
  • Save families money on fuel bills.
  • Create tens of thousands of jobs.
  • Save the NHS millions of pounds.

Sounds like a good idea? It is. But it won't happen by itself.

What we're doing

Friends of the Earth's Warm Homes campaign is calling for the coldest two thirds of British homes to be improved.

We need to cut emissions from heat-leaking houses by 42 per cent this decade, to meet our legal targets for tackling climate change.

And tenants need special protection. Houses rented from a private landlord or through a letting agency are the most likely to be the worst insulated.

We're calling for the Government to:

  • Set a minimum energy-efficiency standard for private rented homes.
  • From 2016 make it illegal to let the worst homes until they're improved.
  • Ensure all houses are brought up to scratch by 2020.
  • Support landlords and homeowners to make improvements.
  • Ensure people know what it costs to heat a home before moving in.

The Government will introduce a new energy law in 2011.

Please join Friends of the Earth's campaign for the Energy Bill to warm our homes, not the planet.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

COMIC RELIEF... DONT MAKE ME LAUGH

Actually there is little chance of me laughing at anything on comic relief. Perhaps it should be re-titled Relieve me of these comics. At least that would sound more promising. Especially at a time when large areas of Japan were apparently disappearing beneath the waves and three nuclear reactor were leaking and of course not to mention thousands being injured and killed in Libya.
Meanwhile whilst your not laughing, nurses, doctors, policemen, firemen, teachers, lecturers and of course broadcasters are all being sacked to help plug the the deficit caused by ever more greedy wankers (surely bankers. Ed)
One of the cheapest shots is probably the axing of BBC Local Radio programs which is where the BBC is irreplaceable. We don't want formulaic, cheapo radio five pap or Clear Channel style pop radio with a rotating diet of the same dozen records 24/7 and inane DJs with verbal diarrhea. nor do we want shedloads of money wasted on lo-fi digital radio.
Its fine to do stunts for charity but the cost to us all and to the environment should be factored in before they decide to let a bunch of Z List numpties scramble up Kilimanjaro with a couple of film crews. heedless of carbon footprints.
And finally, most of the so called comedy is both lamentable and sad. Instead why not stop this sanitising of the news, by showing the bodies and the missing limbs and the true horror of war and natural disasters. We can take it. and in fact true suffering shown on TV is much more likely to make me reach into my pocket for somethig to give to "charadee" than are mindless pop songs and ever more teenagers shaking their bits.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Closing the BBC local radio stations and replacing it with Five Live is like replacing a bar of soap with a fresh turd.