The Senna documentary last year cost me £12 in central London, around $19 at current rates - I can't imagine it has changed massively. I was as surprised as Axel Foley: "I could get blown for 12 bucks!"
Indeed, it even comes on the same day the British prime minister makes a speech where he takes benefits away from the young who are struggling to find work and uses the term "culture of entitlement".
This from a landed multi-millionaire and without a hint of irony.
I used to work as a sub-editor for Teletext. Writing 35-character headlines for the analogue service was some of the best journalism training anybody could have. I still remember some of the best:
Spurs move right, said Fred's agent
Sizzling Gasquet batters sorry Fish
Fish Mardy from Del Potro battering
(we liked Mardy Fish losing badly at tennis, particularly if he also had a strop after)
For anybody with knowledge about British tennis out there, the following became a running joke which we rehashed at every opportunity.
Bogdanovic suffers first-round exit
That must have been used a mind-boggling number of times.
We also did subbing for Ceefax, with its extra paragraph - but I'll always have a bigger place in my heart for Teletext and its 40 x 24 character grids (for text, 35 for headlines).
You're right, we shouldn't be surprised but he's becoming such a caricature of his own evil who knows where it will end?
He makes that crazy statement Rumsfeld came up with about "unknown unknowns - things that we don't know that we don't know" seem like a proper sentence when you think Met Police are trawling through a database of 300,000,000 separate News International emails in East London as we speak, 11 million of which were deleted and then recovered.
I agree that too much hero status is given to pilots who crash land planes, but this is about landing gear failing to deploy correctly from a spanking-new, all-electronic cockpit and plane.