This.
Anyone who has spent time around toddlers can spot an attention-seeking tantrum. And some people turn it into a career.
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It’s not. Most aren’t upheld, because they aren’t judged too have broken the code, and Ofcom’s sanctions are pretty limited anyway.
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Coincidentally I’m sure…
Rupert Murdoch and Andrew Neil are each about to launch right-wing news channels in the UK and are desperate to attract big-name ‘talent’.
Of course, he could always make a second attempt at becoming big in America…
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There has become a tradition of humourous, fake storming, flouncing from off the sets of British comedy panel shows. It began as real walk-offs by pop stars on ‘Never Mind the Buzzcocks’ when they were a bit too precious about the banter from the host. It’s usually done by the ‘offended’ comedian pulling an aggrieved expression, standing up and walking a half dozen steps in the direction of off the set to only immediatlely return to their seat. I’ve seen it done many times on ‘Qi’, ‘Mock the Week’, ‘Have I Got News For You’ and others. It is usually quite humourous when comparting the reaction to the seemingly innoculous comment, usually from the host.
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See, I’m not 100% sure that berk is in fact derivative of “Berkeley Hunt”.
One, I’m actually from said Berkeley, and never heard this reference until I moved to London.
Two, whilst the Berkeley Hunt can indeed be considered C-bombs, again, I don’t think I ever heard anyone refer to them as such.
(And indeed, they’re utter arseholes, mostly landed gentry, aristocrats and other such pond-scum, with no regard for other people’s property. You know, Tories. They thought nothing of jumping their horses over hedges and tearing up gardens in my youth).
And three, which I think I have mentioned here before, residents of Berkeley in Gloucestershire pronounce it Bark-lee, not Burk-lee.
Also, I’m sure I saw the word “berk” used many times on children’s TV when I was younger, and while there were definite examples of innuendo on kid’s TV in the Seventies and Eighties, I doubt they would have let this fly if it were the true definition of the word.
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ITV knew what they were getting with Morgan and chose to chase the ratings and the clicks.
And yet when he poured scorn on someone talking about their mental health - at the same time ITV is publicising the work of the mental health charity MIND to destigmatise these conditions - the channel didn’t fire him, they didn’t even condemn his actions - they let him walk away.
ITV deserves to be hauled over the coals by Ofcom for its lax safeguarding standards and willingness to engage in shock and outrage rather than delivering news.
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Wasn’t the Bee Gees walking out of an interview with Clive Anderson the start of it, or was it happening earlier than that?
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I certainly remember the UK Defence Secretary John Nott storming off of an interview with Robin Day in either 1982 or 83.
The government had said there would be no defence cuts, but Nott was already on his way out. Nott took serious umbrage when Day said if people could believe “a transient, here today and, if I may say so, gone tomorrow politician.”
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We do. Hundreds of them.
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Good feckin’ riddance to that parlous piece of shit. He represents absolutely everything wrong with british right wing thinking.
Personal note to Piers: that’s me being woke, you prick.
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Any slang term, no matter how strong, would be a dilution of his true aspect.
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I’d always heard it came from Berkshire Hunt.
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Another reason to love dear Clive.
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Apparently over 41,000 have filed complaints about Morgan’s comments regard the Duchess…
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May well have been. I am not familiar with Clive Anderson beyond his work on the afor mentioned panel shows, his interviews not being shown on Australian TV.
As Frankie Boyle has said you don’t want to provoke the big Bee Gee.
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Having read the entire headline this time; I feel a lot better about my fellow Brits.
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I didn’t think it too many.
Piers has always been No.2 on my own personal “people I would happily punch in the face” list.
One behind Nigel Farage and only just ahead of Boris Johnson.
With all due respect, I hope that’s woke enough.
I’m only getting at the point that Piers and his awful ilk seem to forget that “woke” simply means “respectful”. He’s even written some shit-awful book to counter it, apparently.
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