Writing, mostly.

Hating all things that link television to charity and it’s Mary Poppins approach to easing the pain of giving, it nonetheless came as a big surprise to find out that the barrel to which the BBC will scrape is, in fact, bottomless. Always the launchpad to tired old celebrities as they dig their fingernails into fame even if it does mean drawing blood from the backs of disabled children, it appalled me to hear ‘Downtown’ as sung by the Bonnie Langford of our generation – one Emma Bunton. Quite how this upbeat look at social disparities reflects upon the ethos of CIN, I won’t go into but I’m dearly hoping that there will be a lovely video of tearful children filmed in angst-friendly black-and-white to accompany the spritely woman’s choreographed jovility.