I have just got round to watching this week's Dead Ringers.
It has a sketch about what I called Labour's World Cup strategy . When faced by questions, Tony Blair starts to count down from twenty. At zero the flag of St George drops and the PM says "speak to the flag cos the nation aint listening" (a pastiche on a street phrase my kids inform me!).
The only thing that spoils the joke is the interviewer who wears implausibly large specs. Doesn't he realise what a fool he looks?
It's been pointed out by some contributors that there's a bit of a problem with comments.
The number of comments you see after each post (and on the right hand side of the main blog page) is the number of comments that should be on each post. But we have some technical problems which slows this process...
I've asked one of my technically minded pals to explain.
"The difference is due to the way that the content of the blogs is published. Without going into too much heavy detail, when a blog is updated, certain bits of it are rebuilt and certain bits are automatically changed. These rebuilt sections are then transferred across multiple servers. Sometimes due to the heavy load on bbc.co.uk some of the bits find themselves stuck in a queue waiting to be published. The rebuilt bits can take longer to arrive than the others... and so there is sometimes a disparity between number of comments 'totals' and actual published numbers."
So there you have it. I'm told that we are looking into a solution.
