I have to admit to being an avid radio listener but over the past few weeks I have become jaded with wall to wall and ear to ear bad news. Jeremy Vine is my particular hate, there doesn’t seem to be anything that he can’t appear to make sound worse than it is. Chicken Licken meets the Daily Mail.
He reminds me of a patient of mine who was a retired RAF officer with far too much time on his hands. One day he complained at the checkout of the local supermarket that there should be some cardboard boxes available so that he wouldn’t have to carry lots of plastic bags in his arthritic hands. The management took notice and acted.
At his next visit he loudly pointed out to the staff that all those cardboard boxes adjacent to the check outs were a fire hazard!
For a balanced view, with great insight, on the current economic situation take a look at Robert Peston’s blog from the BBC website.
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