On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 00:32:23 UTC, Tudor Hughes wrote:
No weather forecast at the end of the PM programme on Radio 4 as it would have been an act of sacrilege to break into the hallowed words of some wittering tosspot delivering a hagiography of the greatest musician the world has ever known. To cap it all this epoch-making event was top of the news on Radio 4. Well done, Beeb, you cloth-eared retards.

I can empathise to a certain extent in that he's a soundtrack of some people's lives. But you should have seen Twitter: people falling over themselves and self-flagellating to show they're more affected by it than the next person. Mawkish. Sky Sports news had a news item on "Figures from the sports world pay tribute to David Bowie". Puh-lease.

Richard