Britian's Losing Talent.

Yesterday Russell Brand walked out on the BBC, David Tennent turned his back on Doctor Who and everybody at the National Television Awards looked more then a little bit jumpy. I can't say I really blame them what with the government desperately trying to shift the blame for the governments mistakes on to the media which is more then a little unfair. After all it wasn't the media that decreed a woman should have no other role then that of a wife and mother.

It wasn't the media that spent millions of pounds making sure that diktat would be carried out.

It wasn't the media who put secured phone lines into to peoples homes.

It wasn't the media that intercepted mail and blocked telephone calls.

And it most certainly wasn't the media that placed the media under ceaseless attack over the last two years.

No, those crimes belong to the state alone and can rest nowhere else then at the states feet. Fair play some in the media are rightly feeling a little bit bruised having been suckered into playing along with the scam but there's no real shame in that. All spooks do is lie, manipulate, exploit and destroy. It is, if you like, their art form and it's not as if the media have been able to look back over the last 90-something years and see every generation get suckered in by the same old lines only to be torn apart in the same old way.


Going back to the assisted suicide story from yesterday can I just say that I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. The law is quite clear on the matter and has been quite clear since 1961. No-one can give their consent to be killed by another be that person a doctor, a friend, a lover, a husband or a wife. Now if we can just get certain sections of society to accept that yes the law does apply to them too we might be able to move on as a society.