Support the Resonance Fm fundraising marathon

At half twelve this Saturday I shall be chatting to Jonny Trunk from Trunk Records as part of the 
Resonance Fm Fundraising Marathon.


I shall be auctioning off a unique, money can't buy experience - The chance to take a road trip with me and Resonance Content Manager, Richard Thomas from London back to our home town of Cwmbran in south Wales for tea with Richard's Mum and a walk over town. We're  hoping  a minor celebrity will be supplying the packed lunches. The cost of the seven bridge toll is not included in the deal. Interested in making a bid for it? Contact Resonance Fm

Political Junkies Pre-Election Comedy Show

Get down to Political Junkies Pre-Election Comedy Show on Wednesday 5th May at the Cross Kings in Kings Cross. Hils Barker, Liam Mallone, me and more to be announced. Let's start taking the piss out of the next government before it's even been formed. All proceeds go to Housmans - London's Oldest radical bookshop. Get Tickets Here

Oh and we'll be talking to them about it all live on next weeks show on Tuesday at 21:00 on Resonance 104.4fm

DAVID “BLAINE” TUCK

As close followers of this site will know, much of the content is the work of my trusty co-host David Tuck. You may also remember in an earlier post I made it known that the picture of me Dave chose to put on the site made me cringe at my own cheesiness. So David’s changed it. He didn’t have to but he has, and the new one, although an improvement, makes me look like a bit of a loony leftie. Mind you, that is something I learnt to live with a while back

Anyway, as you can see David is no longer a faceless enigma pulling the strings of this blog like a mysterious puppet master, a creepy Gepetto or a clandestine pimpernel – He’s gone public…with a picture that makes him look like a curious Derrin Brown style mindbender. May I assure you that David is in no way a Blaine/Copperfield/Daniels/ parodist and I am pretty sure that the dice aren’t even his. He is not a member of the magic circle, and for the record is not on any other registers of any kind.

He is also not as blue as he looks in the photo in which he clearly looks like a child’s entertainer from Avatar. 

David is however a wizard with this site and on the radio show. Did I mention it available now! Here. Now that's magic!

MENTION ON THIS WEEKS TOTALLY BIASED SHOW SAVES THE WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL

After just four programmes the Totally Biased show has finally started to prove itself a potent political force capable of changing government policy.  Listeners to this week’s radio show on Resonance Fm or Podcast will know that we tried and failed to manage to speak to campaigners from the Defend the Whittington campaign, (our call went straight to answer machine for no reason. Conspiracy theorists feel free to theorise away).

As it was, it seems that the simple act of us mentioning the campaign was enough to force Health Secretary Andy Burnham to scrap his plans for the closure of the Whittington A&E. Yes there was an huge local campaign, yes there was a massive demonstration through the streets of Islington and yes there is an election on and Labour are shitting it. But had this campaign not been given the oxygen, no make that mustard gas of publicity on Totally Biased then would Burnham have buckled? I’ll let you decide that for yourselves.

AMBULANCE CHASERS

As it was the day of action on Thursday 29^th April outside the Whittington became more of a victory rally. Of course, with it being election time all of the various political parties were out in force, all of them trying to take credit for the victory, when the real credit goes to a core group of socialists, trade unionists, greens and local activists who have led the whole thing, and bought me a lovely pint of beer and a sandwich afterwards.

“SAY CLEGG”

It was really quite a tawdry sight, watching the Lib Dems who instead of engaging with the rally itself, treated the whole thing as the set for a good photo opportunity. They cheered their speakers mealy mouth Clegglite bilge before buggering off to have their grinning opportunist faces captured for posterity, the rally firmly in the background. They were all holding little Lib Dem branded signs saying “Success”. Bless.

My real contempt is reserved for the Tories, for whom I suspect the experience was a double whammy. Not only the first time on a demonstration, but also the first time within 50 yards of an NHS hospital. Cheeky bastards. They did look pretty uncomfortable I’m glad to say, and they basically just skulked in the shadows until, in the most brazen act of electioneering I have ever seen, Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley turned up, took to the mega phone and proceeded claim to be some great savoir of health care – think of a cross between Aneurin Bevan and Florence Nightingale, only with a lacquered on Longkesh brown fake tan and an ivory toothed smile that looks like a private dentists playground.

Despite a bit of furious heckling off both me and local labour MP Emily Thornberry (Don’t  know much about her, but fair play for shouting Lansley down), Lansely would not guarantee that he would actually save the hospital, instead he promised a ‘review’.

A one point my anger almost turned to joy when a campaign balloon popped behind me and for a split second I though someone was taking pot shots at the cacodemonic prick head.  But no, it wasn’t an assassination attempt. I guess if you were serious about assassinating Andrew Lansely you wouldn’t what to do it right outside an accident and emergency department.


Good article on it all here by Tom Foot

TV debate shock : Cameron reveals plans to annex the Sudetenland

Widow keeps life-sized cardboard cut-out of husband

In our 'not at all creepy news' file today we have a widow keeps her husband’s memory alive... by living with his cardboard cut-out.

Dad-of-two Paul Challis died at just 38.

 His death devastated wife Maria, 36, and their two children Jack, seven, and Molly, nine.

But now a 6ft 1in life-sized cardboard cut-out of Paul stands in the family home, looking over them every day.

The 2D-dad was a guest at his own funeral and attended a wedding after his death.

Almost as creepy as waking up to find out David Cameron's in power. 

Brown Gaffe : He uses flowers to apologize to 'Bigoted' Old lady .

Steve's First Post

This is my first post on this blog, so can I first off all say well done to the glorious David Tuck for everything he's done thus far. This includes not only co-hosting the show, building this blog but also changing the wheel on my car after the radio show last night. Pictures to come. Also listen to his story about losing a canoe on a tube train in Election show 4, which also should be up later today.

However...

DISCLAIMER ONE
As you will be aware, the radio show/podcast is called Totally Biased and as such differences of opinion are not only unavoidable but desirable. So, let me cast the first stone of criticism at David's nice new glasshouse of a blog.

I wish to distance myself from his description of both Wales and a very funny and successful Welsh radio show as obscure. This was an Englishman's joke. He should know better and rest assured Welsh followers, he was made to feel very guilty.

DISCLAIMER TWO
The picture of me looking like some kind of b-list Oscar Wilde is David's choice and makes me feel quite embarrassed. I look incredibly groomed and pleased with myself. This is certainly not the case. A Picture of a neurotic tramp might be more appropriate.  I wish to distance myself from this pictures, well, as much as one can from a picture of oneself.

Other than that I am delighted to at last have an outlet for my tantrums and torment.

Oh and DISCLAIMER 3
If I am going to blog here regularly and honestly, then you are going to have to put up with some very 'jazz' grammar and spelling. if you care about this please keep it to yourself as being corrected will make me feel not like doing it. It's not a spelling bee (see is that 'bee' correct or should it be, 'B', as in B Arthur from the Golden Girls.

This rule is breakable if I accidentally say something like 'Nick Clegg isn't a Knob' when I clearly mean 'is'. Let me know and I'll correct it immediately.

Thank you for being a friend....

Big Orphan Annie

Gordon Brown curries favour with the youth by appearing with pop star

Steven Hawking finally says something a bit weird and makes us start to doubt that he's the brainiest man ever

Stephen Hawking has revealed he strongly believes in aliens and warned that Earth could be at risk from an invasion.

In a documentary series, the renowned astrophysicist argued that it is 'perfectly rational' to assume intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.
And in an extraordinary series of assertions, he said Earth might be at risk from what he imagines to be 'massive ships' which could try to colonise our planet and purge our resources.

Professor Hawking said: ''I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. '

What it appears he has done is see an old episode of Battlestar Galactica, and thought it was some sort of documentary.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1268712/Stephen-Hawking-Aliens-living-massive-ships-invade-Earth.html#ixzz0mBrLcT00

Shout out to our L.A. correspondent Ed Crasnick

Steve appears on obscure channel...in another country.

Steve guested on BBC Wales topical news show ' What's the story ?'

Click here for the website and iPlayer info

Steve will no doubt will add an amusing anecdote about his appearance...or maybe not.

Here are some of the shows groupies

You think you've had a bad day ?

Consider Freyson Sigmundsson , the Icelandic volcanologist. After studying the Eyjafjoal's [ said like E-jaffa-joel] volcano for twenty years, pretty much his whole career. He decides to have a quick weekend away to Paris, and that's the moment it choose to go critical! He was than trapped in france for a week unable to access any data to complete his life's work.

Seen here during happier times:

A Blog is born...

Hello Viewers, welcome to the all action Blog of the Totally Biased show.
Here's host Steve compromising himself by berating the tories while drinking a Starbucks.


David's unconventional approach to research notes



Plus links to the Podcasts of the last two shows

Show 2

Show 3

And the answer to May 5th's, Politician look a like question is : Tony Blair ! Really ?? Look again