Day: February 1, 2011

Carr and Hall handed comedy awards – National – The News.

I like both Jimmy Carr and Rich Hall. But to call them legends is total bollocks.

Just how long do you have to be in the public eye to be referred to as a legend ?

Bob Monkhouse is a legend. Ken Dodd is a legend. Morecambe and Wise are legends. The 2 Ronnies are legends. These folks served their time and are imbedded in this nations psyche. These two newbies have a long way to go yet.

Notice I haven’t mentioned the likes of Billy Connolly, Smith & Jones and of course Lenny Henry. They are way up there but are not really legends.

Carr and Hall have, so far,  just been a mere flash in the pan by comparison.

Updated at 16:00 today, some 90 minutes after my original post. I was able to enter my post code this time. Results below.

Well I finally got to review my own local data at around 09:30 on the 2nd Feb.

Based on what I saw I didn’t exactly get a warm feeling. However, I didn’t feel that my level of anxiety about our society has increased.

There appear to be three areas of concern but, hey, no surprises. Anti-social Behaviour and Violent Crime are the main statistical groups. Anyone who has one iota of local knowledge could have told you that without the aid of this expensive website. Ask any local and they would also tell you where the hot spots are. The website just confirms it in a graphical manner.

As I said there are three areas of concern. Having mentioned two of them above  the third is “Other Crime”. Or to put it another way “miscellaneous”. The total for this catch-all category is almost as large as the sum of all the other categories. This suggests that some further filtering is required with additional categories being defined.

Will I be revisiting this website ? Probably not any time soon.