Dear John

The joke runs something like this: “If John Peel could see what Glastonbury has become, he would be spinning in his grave. At the wrong speed.”

We know John was no fan of U2 and quite what he would have made of Beyonce is anybody’s guess. But I don’t think this year’s bash at Worthy Farm was quite bad enough to disturb the great man’s rest (he would surely have adored the superb Jimmy Cliff set).

Centre of the universe?

So the BBC are flogging Television Centre in Shepherd’s Bush and the great and the good of the media world are sobbing hot tears and spinning fond tales of this wonderful, vintage institution.

Bless.