Frank Words in the comments suggests that maybe the BBC could get a couple of musical jokers like ‘Chas and Dave’ to present the Proms. Why do that when the BBC has its very own in-house musical joker…step forward Mr Paul Mason…a man of great depths and hidden talents.
Is it April Fool’s Day? I don’t suppose it matters to a rebel like Paul Mason who longs for the Revolution and the breaking down of all societies petty rules, structures and iconography. April 1st can be any day he wants it to be.
Tell me I’m wrong when you read the below that Mason isn’t pulling our legs and having a laugh using the BBC to peddle his mockery of Osborne…..
Did a medieval monk predict the double-dip?
[Musicians created] sounds that shocked their audience instead of soothing them.
One of the earliest examples of this is the Kyrie Osbornum, an anonymous manuscript recently found in the archives of an English Cathedral.
What has startled musicologists is the similarity of the Kyrie to a graph of the UK’s quarterly GDP growth figures since before the Lehman Brothers crisis.
Like the UK economy, the melody starts stable, plunges to unheard of depths, recovers, but falls again at the end. And like the Kyrie, the UK growth graph speaks of disruption, depression, failed recovery, uncertainty.
Controversy rages about the Kyrie, with some scholars determined to prove it is a fake, planted perhaps by an economist who is also a musician, and who has simply projected each 0.25% rise or fall in output onto a four-stave graph.
This school of thought has dubbed the piece the Kyrie Darlingianum.
Good that the BBC’s business editor on Newsnight can push such nonsense and all with a straight face……any clearer sign of anti-Osborne sentiment couldn’t be found.
The photo at the top of this post is a discovery that was found in an old cellar in the KGB headquarters…..apparently it is the blue print for the creation of the BBC, some say.
No wonder Mason was nominated for the Orwell Prize not once, but twice!
Well, whatever it is… was… it last all of a day and managed 24 comments before closing.
I think his blog posts are actually not meant for public consumption.
Which rather raises the question as to what he actually is for.
Paul Mason uses the BBC to expand his name and sell his books. It is as simple as that. Why it pays him and then lets him do it I do not know!
Yet another socialist who turns out to mean socialism for everyone else…