Sherlock Holmes was a Victorian genius. In the 21st Century, all you need is an iPhone. Warning: Contains spoilers. Mostly inflicted by the BBC when they spoiled this well-loved classic. Don’t you just hate it when people slag something off before they’ve even seen it? I was guilty of that on Friday, when Steven Moffat popped into [...]

Accusing the gay icon Danii Minogue of homophobia is a little like accusing Joanna Lumley of being anti-Gurkha. The Twitter backlash against her reveals the prejudice of the viewers - not the X Factor judge.

Unlike Gene Hunt, I’m not ‘avin ‘oops. Or ketchup. Or salad cream. Or any of the other 57 Varieties produced by Mr Heinz. Why? Because they’d rather offend a massive 10% of their market than offend 200 phone-in homophobes. What’s it all about? This ad, which was pulled in the UK after a week:

I’ve tried to watch Lord of the Rings. Really, I have. But there are three films, each over three hours long, and I just don’t have the attention span. In the UK, they’ve just finished showing them on TV over three consecutive Sundays. But by the time I’ve drifted off, channel-hopped, skipped an hour ahead [...]

I missed the live launch of Big Brother, because I was out having a life. Dinner with friends. With whom I discussed Big Brother… Actually, we were discussing the more controversialEndemol programme, The Big Donor Show, in which a terminally ill woman gives her kidneys to one lucky contestant. Due to be screened in the [...]