Yawn yawn yawn. Adenstar have said in the past that they are too small a company to build a football stadium.
And even if it wasn't, so what? I' be delighted to have our new grond built by a compny owned by a Brighton supporter.
And how is David Cameron going to set the price of gas, electricity, council tax, food or mortgages? The government don't have control over ANY of these things, and the price of petrol would still go up even if it wasn't heavily taxed.
A "top" celebrity has had some sort of operation or medical procedure that he doesn't want anyone to know about. It is so hush-hush, in fact, that his lawyers have gagged the Sun (who it would seem know all about it). By, law, he is only allowed to be referred to as LM. Weird, isn't it?
I disagree. This board isn't funded publicly, or made possible by a charter that enshrines the whole neutrality/right-of-reply thing.
It's simply unfair to lay into someone on the airwaves without giving them a chance to have their say.
However, I don't really know the background to this, so...
I didn't hear the phone in, but no BBC presenter should use the licence payers' airwaves to express his personal opinions at all, really. Expecially not about an individual.
I think you have to register a raffle under the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1984. I know this, as I was nearly ARRESTED under this legislation outside the polling station where Bellotti failed to get elected to East Sussec council in 1997.
It's probably quite easy though; and the charity...
By the way: it's not uncommon to tell a radio interviewee about the sort of questions they might be asked. So that they're prepared and can answer them in the best way they can. No-one at the BBC should ever give an interviewee a list of questions that will be stuck to; and if an interviewee...