Agenda 2019

The odious Kelvin McKenzie was given air time on Sky News last night (10:30pm Tuesday 15th May 2012) under the pretext of reviewing today's papers. Apart from his usual patronising and offensive comments, his main diatribe was centered on "The Greeks" who had been going around "for years with their hands out" and essentially getting money for nothing and deserved all their current problems. Not once did this obnoxious individual mention the Greek people who are daily paying the price for the failure of their system and institutions, with higher unemployment cuts in their pension, wages and salaries and the latest phenomenon of "soup kitchens" in Athens to feed people of all strata of society who literally have nothing to eat. McKenzie of Hillsborough and "Gotcha" fame really is a waste of space.

“Inside the Titanic. An ambitious factual drama that reveals moment by moment exactly how the Titanic sank, telling the untold stories of the engineers and stokers who battled the icy water.” If television companies plan to show programmes under the description of factual drama, they should at least ensure that the factual content of the presentation are accurate. Last nights (22nd March 2012) offering over 2 hours on Channel 5, was full of fabrication and historical inaccuracies from start to finish. Titanic carried a total of 20 lifeboats not 16 as stated in the programme. It was the Board of Trade regulations which stated that vessels over 10,000 tons must carry that number (together with rafts and floats for 75% of the lifeboats) which had nothing to do with the number of water tight c ompartments. The orders given by First Officer Murdoch (after the lookouts sighted the iceberg) were “Hard a'starboard”, “Full a'stern” “Close water tight doors” “Hard a...