The Obscurer

After casting his eyes over the current media landscape, Nik Johnson felt moved to tweet:
Hey! You know what ITV do REALLY, REALLY well? Fucking nothing.
Well now, I think that’s a bit harsh. The new series of Jimmy McGovern’s The Street began last night, and although it is broadcast on BBC1, I noticed yesterday that it [...]

Other than that fact that they both have something of a speech impediment, I think that Jonathan Ross and Carol Thatcher seem to be quite different people. The circumstances surrounding their respective media controversies are also quite different. So it comes as no surprise to me that the response of their employers and the sanctions [...]

We’re sunk. The liberal elite has won. According to Private Eye
It’s official – Christmas is cancelled at the Daily and Sunday Express. Chairman Richard “Dirty” Desmond, worried about a verbal or physical backlash from the swathes of journos he is throwing out into the snow as the global recession bites, has announced there will be [...]

Someone kindly left Tuesday’s copy of the Daily Express lying around at work, and I present the front-page story to you now as a kind of public service; for in these uncertain economic times, who knows? Should we find ourselves having been made redundant we may have to consider applying for all sorts of jobs [...]

So, has Banksy finally been unmasked? More importantly, who cares? Not I. I’m afraid I’m going to have to demur from the popular opinion that Banksy is our most finest graffitoist.
Let’s start with a couple of his recent topical daubings that have regularly appeared on news reports, often without being specifically referred to, as if [...]