Watch BBC 4 tonight at 9pm. Michael Cockerell begins his series covering the Great Offices of State. Tonight he looks at the Home Office.
And on Friday 19th Feb, BBC Parliament is showing the full coverage of election night in February 1974.
Geek-tastic TV.
UPDATE: The Home Office programme is now on iPlayer HERE.
The 'Home Office' is no longer a great office of state.
ReplyDeleteIts been split up.
More recently it even had someone called Jaqui Smith as minister. Now it has err, .... er .... wotsisname, the postman.
Election night '74 plus half a dozen bottles of Guinness? Yes, I'm geeky enough for that. It will be fun watching the only Labour victory that will be televised this year.
ReplyDeleteAnd a Permanent Secretary who appears to be one of the wettest, most ineffectual men I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteStraw just said "inshallah" on the program. His mutation to quisling dhimmitude is complete.
ReplyDeleteHe reminds me of the quote from Dr Zhivago about men who some pretend to look up to but they, in fact, despise.
He could not even gabble out a response in Chilcot due to one swivel eye on his seat.
Who would go there for the Tories?
ReplyDeleteI don't think Grayling's up to the job.
Do you think Michael Howard might come back?
Maybe if David Davis got down on his knees and asked very nicely...
Well shall I be really geeky. Most of the election night coverage was, of course, in March 1974.
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