Get the latest weather, every half hour on BBC News

Just turned over to BBC News 24 (or whatever they are calling it now) and there was one of those mini ads they run to promote themselves – and this one had the verbal strap-line of “Get the latest weather,…

You may very well think that; I couldn’t possibly comment

Over the past few weeks, I have been re-watching the House of Cards Trilogy on DVD again. It’s one of those great political drams, but my views of the series changed over time as the programs themselves changed. In part…