Revolutionary Rants

There is a poor deer on Exmoor that has survived nine weeks with a wire bird feeder stuck in its jaw… An attempt to catch her is going off but they reckon the wire is now grown in to her skin. Since seeing the video of the poor creature I can’t help but keep imagining having a bird feeder stuck on my face! I hope it’ll be OK.

The Apprentice proved both boring and odd last night. It comprised only of “intensive” interviews with three white, male, middle-aged blokes who are “friends” of S’Alan. This annoyed me because both the women - despite one of them having a adult off-spring of eighteen - kept getting asked about their families. OK, so Lohit and Simon do not have children, but Tre does - why didn’t he get grilled on whether he would move and how his family would be effected? Anyhoo, before I get on to too much of a feminist rant on that… So, no surprises that Lohit was thrown out as nice as he seems he doesn’t seem to have done anything much the whole time. Also not that surprising that Tre has gone as it is rather hard to imagine him working in a team.

But then there was the one who got through - the nation’s most “loathed” woman - Katie who decided to pull out due (surely not? NOOOOO!) for family reasons. Oh great, another high flying woman uses the family card when shoved in the corner, meaning that yet more middle-aged, white, men will be able to say ‘what about your family though???‘

The backlash continues against Ms Hopkins, though, with everyone saying she only went in the series ‘to win’. But I think it is more bloody irritating that she has said she is “balancing” family and work and then kopping out at the final hurdle…