- Business (10)
- Dogs (1)
- Environment (2)
- Journalism (20)
- Media (5)
- Motors (3)
- music (2)
- Outdoors (21)
- Politics (20)
- public relations (1)
- Society (19)
- Sport (3)
- technology (7)
- Transport (87)
- Travels (8)
- Uncategorized (84)
- 09/11/2009: Cheeky villains
- 02/11/2009: The woes of a freelance journalist
- 27/10/2009: Roadworks
- 26/10/2009: In mortal danger
- 23/10/2009: Losing my memory, honesty and dishonesty
- 18/10/2009: Oldham loop
- 12/10/2009: Heathrow’s third runway
- 08/10/2009: The Times
- 08/10/2009: Written during David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative Conference
- 07/10/2009: Theresa Villiers
Evan Davies
About ten years ago, I was interviewed by Evan Davies, then for BBC2’s Newsnight, about Metrolink finances taking too long to get together. Naturally, I tuned in exitedly that night and was mortified when the package went ahead without me.
The man himself range me the next day to apologise and explain that there had been nothing wrong with what I had said but that another item had squeezed his slot and I had fallen victim to that.
Coming from an industry which routinely asks people to put themselves out for nothing ever to appear, I was surprised and delighted at the call.
So it was with some pleasure that I watched Davies’ hour-long explanationj of the banking crisis tonight. I had an epiphany, similar to one I had last year when I visted the Einstein museum in Geneva.
I just hope the understanding of the banking crisis stays in my mind longer than the theory of relativity did!