I watched a programme last night about the History of The Celts, and nearly threw my TV out of the window. Not because of the subject matter but because of the complete T**T presenting it.

Some effeminate Scottish bloke with long hair, who kept stopping in mid sentence as if he was reading a script handed down from God himself. It was the kind of overwrought delivery that I thought only happened in Lord Of The Rings.

I'm all for populism and making things easy to understand, but I do object to the kind of loose intellectual process that allows someone to pronounce as fact things that can only be pure supposition,. For example, at one point, he decided that a Woman buried with some artifacts or other, must have been "wise". How the f**k can you make that conclusion if you're supposed to be a scientist ? Only once did I hear him say "we know this because..." and produce some actual evidence to back it up.

Al the rest could have been completely made up as far as I was concerned.

The programme was littered with stuff like that, plus moody out of focus shots of this bloke staring into the middle distance at the sheer awesomeness of himself.

He kept referring to "our land", "this land of ours" and apparently there's some people in Cornwall, for whom the concept of "their Celtic heritage spanning the ages and this land of ours" (see how annoying it is) is a highly emotional and contentious subject "even today in our land".

He then proceed to have his DNA mapped and it turned out his paternal lineage came from Spain or somewhere. How I laughed (and then gazed wistfully into the middle distance).

At least you get the feeling with Brian Cox. annoying though he is, that a). he's done the hard graft and b). he's not so far up his own a**e as to be practically invisible.

to be continued...