BBC appointment sticks in craw of the over 75s
ONE of the benefits of Covid is that the Johnson government finds it easy to bury bad news.
Hence the very little publicity about the massive donations that the new chairman of the BBC has made to the Conservative party. I thought the BBC was impartial?
However what will stick in the craw of the over 75s is that they are unconsciously funding a party which has taken away the free licence fee gifted to the over 75s by the Brown administration.
This government is no respecter of the elderly - unless of course your name is Stanley Johnson - who through his son’s meteoric rise is - like the BBC - coining it in! usual suspects speak of opinions but yours must concur with theirs. I use reverse psychology with their letters. Whatever they say I think the opposite. My wife gave me the impression similar to the Feedback trolls that I was always wrong. My bookmaker said that those odds were too long. You cannot be wrong every time.
These trolls, by the content of their letters and replies to others, shows a very dark side. They have been using the Feedback column as a political stage for the Labour party for quite some time. They are constantly negative and never positive.
Our country’s vaccination programme is up and running far better than any other European country but do they write praising these efforts. No, it wouldn’t do to show some positivity. More UK arms have been jabbed than any other places around the world but these people stay silent. This programme will get better and better despite the naysayers. Yorkshire leads the way in vaccinations.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know. Are we clear?
Courtesy costs nowt
WHEN writing to the Times, you are expected to preface your letter with ‘Sir.’ Archaic? Yes. Sexist?
Very probably, but somehow that little word seems to set the tone for the letter that follows: articulate, concise and, above all, respectful. Who knows, if it were adopted by the Examiner, it might improve the manners of those few correspondents who cannot make their point without making a snide, sarcastic, often hurtful reference to the object of their criticism, or to a fellow correspondent whose views they don’t like.
Courtesy costs nothing, but there are those who are unwilling to pay even that much.