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Champions against PCJon Gaunt Listen to the Jon Gaunt radio show on Talk Sport between 10am and 1pm weekdays and you will hear a "'warts and all" discussion of topical news. John has a refreshing, lively and controversial approach to running a live talk-in. Winner of three Sony Radio Academy Gold Awards, he is hated by the PC Brigade as he does not suffer fools gladly. You can listen to Talk Sport on 1053KHz & 1089KHz on Medium Wave, on Digital Radio, on Freeview and of course on the internet. Duke of Edinburgh It's great to have Royalty on your side. Our greatest Champion must be the good old Duke of Edinburgh. A much misunderstood man, his quips are usually just common sense (sorry - common sense isn't very PC I know) or examples of his very dry sense of humour (mmm humour isn't PC either). Common Sense In 1996, after the Dunblane shooting he caused an outcry among gun law reformers when he said: "There's no evidence that people who use weapons for sport are any more dangerous than people who use golf clubs or tennis rackets or cricket bats. If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" Commenting on stress counselling for modern servicemen in a TV documentary on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day, he said "We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right? Are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it." Sense of humour Speaking to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, he asked: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?". During a state visit to China in 1986, he famously told a group of British students: "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed". In May2004, he angered deaf people during a visit to the new Welsh Assembly. While he was with a group from the British Deaf Association who were standing near a band, he pointed to the musicians and said: "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." Prince Philip made this quip while talking to a blind woman with a guide dog outside Exeter Cathedral. He said: "Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?" He does overstep the mark sometimes though. Visiting a school, he asked a rather fat (err sorry I mean horizontally challenged) boy what he wanted to do when he grew up. "Be an astronaut" the boy replied. "Ha!" said the Duke "you are far too fat to get into the capsule!" The boy ran away crying.
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