Hunt was/is responsible……for the crisis in the NHS He stopped nursing bursaries and fought junior doctors. (Btw “junior” doctors aren’t kids they are all doctors below consultant level.) He is pro privatisation of healthcare and a thoroughly ruthless politician. Lastly, he was in charge in 2016 when the government ignored plans to prepare for a pandemic and we know how that worked out.
Miriam Margolyes dropped a nice F bomb in the Today studio earlier. She was on after Jeremy Hunt's interview, talking about Robbie Coltrane, and at the end she said she couldn't believe she was sitting in the same chair that Hunt had occupied. She said she had wished him well as he left the studio, "but what I really wanted to say was '**** you '". Immediate panic and consternation among the presenters! What is it about Jeremy Hunt that makes people use bad language? It's not the first time for him, in exactly the same studio!
I love Miriam. Her honesty is something you just don’t hear anymore. For those who don’t know her well, go onto YouTube and look at some of her appearances on the Graham Norton show - hilarious.
As you say, not the first time and for me that makes it all a bit tedious. More than one presenter has "accidentally" called him Jeremy C**t on air, funny the first time but then it becomes contrived. I agree that JH is a c**t and a very dangerous one at that but we've heard it all before. The other thing about this is the BBC are just using it to promote their own programme by headlining it on their own website. It wouldn't even have got a mention if it hadn't been on R4, the BEEB really are pathetic sometimes. As for Miriam Margolyes, I think she is a pretty unpleasant person whose whole act is to be deliberately shocking and that's it. Again, when she started appearing on chat shows she was quite funny but it wears off after a couple of viewings.
I respect your view, but she is a legend and a national treasure. As for your take on the BBC, that's just nonsense I'm afraid.
From what I've seen of people regarded as National Treasures that's not much of a compliment but I accept that it's all about opinions and I've already said what I think about her. Incidentally, after Googling National Treasures I couldn't find her name on anyone's list but I know there are at least two people who like her. The part about the BBC is far from nonsense and you would have to be blind not to notice it. They regularly promote their own programmes as news items, as an example they made a big deal in the news about how British soldiers in Afghanistan had allegedly shot prisoners. No one else was running this story and there was no inquiry being conducted but there was a Panorama programme on BBC the following week. Tony Adams (who has done nothing newsworthy for 20+years) had a couple of articles about him on the sports pages last week because he was on Strictly Come Dancing. And now this with Margolyes, is someone swearing on the radio really newsworthy?
TREBLES all round at the post-mini-budget, pre-U-turn drinks party revealed by the Sunday Times as the hedgie who was hosting Kwasi Kwarteng, one Andrew Law, celebrated a sizeable increase in his income thanks to the chancellor's just-announced scrapping of the 45p tax rate. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1583/news
Back to the Netherlands and Sunday with Laura K and a pot of Bali coffee. Bit of an overblown intro sequence and of course, whatever the content, the program will be accused of bias by right. left, and centre. Jeremy (Mike) Hunt saying there's been mistakes. Tell me about it all but €60 off my UK pension, young family aghast at the rise in their mortgage payment other having mortgage offers removed. Hunt squirming. Better news from vaccine scientists applying mRNA to cancer.
That last part is interesting. What is more interesting was that wasn't it specifically the mRNA nature of vaccines that some of the real crazies tried to seize upon to justify that they were dangerous? If things move in a positive direction then they will look even more stupid than they currently do.
This is interesting reading it bodes well for the future. Plenty of similar articles from impeccable sources. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01393-8
