#michael crick

Crick: hey guys u spend so much time together what if people think you’re fucking 

Blair: ahahaha gosh that hadn’t occurred to me wow

Labour MPs attempt desperate last ditch ploy to sabotage Corbyn’s leadership

On September 6th Labour MPs voted overwhelmingly to restore elections to positions within Labour’s Shadow Cabinet. They ushered in the return to elections by a margin of 169-34, reversing Ed Miliband’s 2011 decision to make Shadow Cabinet posts appointment-only. The motion was proposed by MP Clive Betts, seemingly a non-partisan figure according to his voting record. Betts seems to be neither a…

Disorganised administration? - We need the right to recall Parliament!

The idea that a major political party can operate without effective administration is completely risible. The way in which modern political parties operate and the amount of money they spend from the public purse, let alone from powerful donors to ensure they are well run demands the sort of efficiency that means that every penny can be accounted for, knowing what is spent, by whom and for what.…

Unfair elections - we need to ensure our political parties follow their own rules

“Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives… The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.” Article 21,…

You hear tell of things happening on live broadcasts and then see them later on YouTube. Like the time that weather man on Sky News flipped off the anchors, which, I think we can all agree, was one of the only good things to ever happen on Sky News.

Well, today Dan and I were privileged enough to see one of these rare events ourselves, live. 

Poor Channel 4 News correspondent Michael Crick thought he was just reporting on a rally about leaving the EU in Manchester earlier tonight, when he got interrupted LIVE by one of the audience, who told him to be quiet because he was talking over the speaker on stage. Then he stood in front of the camera. 

Krishnan Guru-Murthy kept asking Crick if he wanted to wrap it up, and if he was alright,  producers appeared and tried to get the guy to leave him alone, the cameraman tried to move him with a little shove.  It was TV GOLD. 

Many reporters would have gone to pieces. Not Michael Crick who, once the guy had been removed, carried on valiantly with the rest of his broadcast as if he hadn’t just been told to stop reporting the news by some random man in a blue fleece. He is a hero of journalism. 

There aren’t any good videos of this happening just yet, but here’s one that someone recorded on their phone and uploaded. The sounds isn’t good, but it’s still worth a watch.

Bought in a flea market. yeah well…

Back from a Parador in Spain.  Paradors are posh, state-run suntraps for slightly older people.  Camped on a day bed which was not overlooked (except by seagulls who reluctantly allowed me to share their communal toilet area) and decided nudey sunbathing with no speaking to be the perfect antidote after mounting the wtf show, which I’m told will now find a place in Edinburgh! Gawd. The last time I took part in The Edinburgh festival I cried. But then, I always cry in Edinburgh, be it from a review or from thrush – it’s a toxic place - aw memory lane….

The Seagull

Just saw a bit of press about my show: I loved my two guests, Michael Crick and Mark Lawson, with a passion and found them to be two charming and dedicated individuals – so I do hope the attendant press coverage didn’t offend them. I am red from embarrassment. Witty and clever people like these make witty and clever conversations, visiting the joke format with repartee, complicit exaggeration, rhetoric, sarcasm, irony and brilliant humility - which is why I was so lucky to have Michael and Mark – any quote taken out of this context is ... Well it's like explaining to your granny that wearing a tee shirt stating ‘shit happens’ isn’t swearing – but some newspapers refuse to attend the same party. Am choosing to see the off field coverage as a punctuation point about column inches rather than on site reportage (she said rhetorically) http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/mark-lawson-and-michael-cricks-old-spat-comes-to-light-8652217.html http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/michael-cricks-gaffe-loses-friends--and-influence-8649523.html