Almost a year after his sudden shutdown on Indie 103.1, ex-Pistol turned radio DJ Steve Jones is tentatively back on air with Jonesy’s Jukebox shows pencilled in for every Monday-Friday at noon-1pm (LA time).
Listen in here – Jonesy’s Jukebox Live.
If this isn’t good news to start off the year, then I don’t know what is.
The UK Guardian’s politics section is running a competition for financial experts in an attempt to unravel Tony Blair’s highly complicated financial arrangements.
Here’s the deal:
We’re offering a prize of an original Steve Bell cartoon for the best explanation of Tony Blair’s opaque financial structures received by 16 December. We’re making the key documents available here. Send us your remarks or annotations; we’ll publish interesting observations, and credit you if you’d like us to. If you’d like to get in touch directly then email david.leigh@guardian.co.uk
The full introduction and background to all of this is here; ‘The Mystery Of Tony Blair’s Finances’ and links to all of the relevant documents you might need are on the sidebar on that page.
Can you shed any light on the mystery? If you can, enquiring minds would love to hear from you.
Yves Rossy did not make it from Morocco to Spain this afternoon.
That’s too bad, but happily he seems to be uninjured by his splash-landing and he will, I hope, make it across on his next attempt.
Until then, I tip my hat to his courage. Bravo.
I used to have a fair measure of respect for AA Gill. His writing style is interesting, as, I thought, was his attitude to the world that he finds himself in.
However if this story is true;
Gill wrote: “I took him just below the armpit. He slumped and slid sideways. I’m told they can be tricky to shoot: they run up trees, hang on for grim life. They die hard, baboons. But not this one. A soft-nosed .357 blew his lungs out.”
And this really is the sole reason that he shot that Baboon;
“I wanted to get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone, a stranger. You see it in all those films: guns and bodies, barely a close-up of reflection or doubt. What does it really feel like to shoot someone, or someone’s close relative?”
Well then I cannot remember ever losing my respect for anyone as fast as I have just lost my respect for AA Gill.
That’s all, really, I have nothing further to add.
Jenson Button Wins 2009 F1 Championship
Just an ‘I remember when…’ post, really. Today Jenson Button won the 2009 Formula One World Chamionship at Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Some people will say that he isn’t a worthy champion, or ‘the car did all the work’.
If you are one of those people then I suggest that you watch a replay of the race, as ‘worthy’ he most certainly was. His driving was aggressive enough at times that it scared me, and I was only watching the race on TV from thousands of miles away.
Well deserved, well raced, and I wonder if he can do it again next year.
Maybe.
