Jeremy Vine - the world's ugliest man?

(Yesteday's thing was on a story about a Spanish company buying Heathrow - Jeremy's whole objection was that the airport would get dirtier and dirtier because the Spaniards 'just don't care'.)

Um...can you please clarify if you mean the Radio 2 presenter?

He dressed up as Frank'n'furter for Children In Need's annual "BBC newsreaders do stupid things for charity" section, but sadly I can't find a photo of this online.

So he's a bad copy of Tommy Boyd then. When are they bringing back Jimmy Young then? (Ar-HAR it's the Arc-tic Monkeys you see, etc.).

I shudder to think what James Whale must be like.

(Kate Bush does win him points, and also he likes the Smiths.)

oh unlike paxman or, erm, any other bbc broadcaster!

Anyway, isn't Morrissey practically a BNP spokesman?

he's gonna kick your fackin' head in next time

There's a lot of this sort of thing about at the moment

it's an interesting area to debate though, do you intervene? Should you? Why/why not? (fwiw my answers = yes and yes), however it's a bit odd that those two stories should coincide, almost as if Vine and Anthony overheard someone talking about watching a fight and simultaneous lightbulbs went on.
Fear the wrath of the fortysomething journo and their retrospective fists of fury.

I read this sort of story in the media a lot but it's something I fortunately never seem to witness myself.

I've only had to step in to stop something once in the last ten years, so I'm not really sweating the tidal wve of street crime which is surely engulfing us all.

I've stepped in once, a couple of years ago - a hooligan type (30-35 or so, fat) started kicking a man's (smart suit, same sort of age) briefcase on the train. It was truly bizarre, totally unprovoked - he started moving it with his foot to get the bloke's attention. He stared pointedly at the hooligan and moved it back. The stare resulted in hooligan saying 'what you lookin' at, you wanna start something?' The man said ' please leave my case alone', at which point the hooly kicked it down the train and said 'fetch that, arsehole'. The business-bloke said - 'you fetch it, moron' or words to that effect, at which point the hooligan lashed out with fists and feet.

It was mid-morning and there were about 3 people in the carriage apart from me and the two men. The business-bloke was getting pasted - he was sort of curled up in a ball in his seat with blows raining on him. I can't remember exactly the sequence of things, but I remember shouting 'get off him' very loudly, and distinctly looking at the thug's hands to see if he had a knife or any kind of weapon. He stopped momentarily and I shoved him away, down the aisle on the train. He sort of stumbled to his knees and I shouted something like 'stay there and don't come anywhere near me'. Oddly he just stayed kneeling down, glaring at me, until the next station, when he calmly got off the train. After he'd gone, I turned round to see if the other bloke was alright, and a woman said that he'd grabbed his briefcase and fled down the train, through the doors that join the carriages. There was a fair bit of blood splattered on the window where he'd been sitting. No-one called the police.

This is a good one

Surely in the first example, the rudest act was the woman not replying to the man asking her to give a smile. If she had said "Sorry, I'm having a really bad day" that might have shut him up, or led to a brief conversation, but certainly not aggression and someone being assaulted. As someone who lives outside the city, it appals and angers me just how rude people can be when visiting London. It doesn't matter whether someone is of a different socio-economic background, political leaning or educational level, you can find something in common with everyone and maybe if you did, you wouldn't have to spend nights dreaming about clocking someone over the head with 700 pages of book.
Noel, Norfolk

Oh definitely. Fuck that lady, what a bitch.

Probably stuck up, too.

lol retired colonels

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Now is not the time for Hard-Fi album covers.

The Anthony article was a little bizarre. His Peter Wolf story is the strongest pro-restorative justice anecdote I've heard, coming from someone who's undecided on that issue. Has 9/11 changed his opinion on the US activities in Latin America he used to oppose? How so? Has his opinion on US foreign policy even changed at all or is his crisis less of a crisis than the presentation of this article suggests? There are so many unsupported caricatured qualities he attributes to 'liberals' (liberal = hating the UK[?!]; the guy who was smirking as the teen girl was attacked must have been left-wing because of how he dressed).

I know, it's weirdly emotive in the way its written. "Smirking" guy being a case in point. Was he really stood there having a good old grin at the girl getting bottled? The stuff about baseball bats later on is all a bit Falling Down for my liking. The whole thing reeks of suppressed hysteria.

is Jeremy Vine very stupid or just very dishonest?

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