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The fifth emergency service

I’m quite new at the BBC so I’m still pretty wide-eyed about the whole experience. Actually being allowed into Broadcasting House and TV Centre still makes my heart race. I just wave my staff pass and I’m in. OMG. People tell me I should take that staff pass off when I leave the building. I [...]

Posted 08 September 2010 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (24) ° Also tagged: , , ,

I don’t want a right to see my MP’s expenses

I don’t agree with my MP about much, but I want to treat him as an adult. I’d like to extend to him approximately the level of trust I extend to my work colleagues and friends. I don’t want to probe and inspect him. I don’t want him to live in a climate of small-minded, [...]

Posted 20 January 2009 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (15) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Brand and Ross are innocent

The Russell Brand show was outstanding radio and didn’t deserve censure. I’m just going to come out and say this because I have a feeling you might not agree with me (at least not if you’re over about 35). The Russell Brand show—the one with Andrew Sachs’ answerphone—was absolutely brilliant. Offensive and childish (clever Howard [...]

Posted 02 November 2008 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (9) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

What’s the difference between the common platform and the web?

James Cherkoff wonders (in a comment) if my common platform isn’t really just… well… the web. It’s a good question because the web, of course, is the mother-and-father of all platforms, a place with such a richness of tools and outlets that it might seem as if it has no need of an additional layer [...]

Posted 23 June 2008 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Is the Trust a Trojan Horse?

Looks like it, doesn’t it? The history: a short-term crisis (Hutton and then all that premium-rate stuff and the lies about the Blue Peter cat?) produced an apparently innocent change in the way the BBC is governed (and a new royal charter to go with it) and now, eighteen months later, it’s just sinking in [...]

Posted 12 June 2008 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,