Been watching TOTP on BBC4, they've been doing 1997 into 1998 recently. Two observations; 1) The Lighthouse Family were indeed as boring as I remember them. 2) Never Ever by All Saints must have been performed (mimed) by the girls on at least eight different episodes of the programme. A nice song that kind of created a chilled chav genre. The first couple of times they performed it, the band members were wrapped up like they were about to ascend K2. Fair enough, it was November. And a refreshing change. But between then and January, each studio appearance saw the young ladies wearing a little less Maybe it was a mild winter.
The head teacher on QT tonight, who is passionately arguing that smart phones should be banned for under 16's. Next to her forceful argument, the spineless Government minister is wobbling more than a jelly in an earthquake. That headmistress should be the next Education Secretary. Her personality and arguments are totally dominating the programme.
A cartoon in Private EYe showed a nursery class with all the little ones sitting staring at their phones except on who was sitting looking at a book, with one nursery nurse saying to another "That's the strange child I was telling you about". Well, I liked it.
